The video features two narrators, Lyudmila Sarangova and Al’mira Erendzhenova who talk about the Bogdakhin temple. Destroyed in 1929, the temple was rebuilt in 1991. It is situated in the village of Khar-Buluk in Tselinnyi rayon of Kalmykia. Lyudmila Sarangova: The temple was given to the Kalmyks as a present by the Dalai Lama V and the Panchen Lama IV in 1681. In the beginning, the nomadically organized temple, which was housed in a yurt and moved along the banks of the Manych river, was called Bogdo Dalai Lamyn Ik Khurul Rashil Khumbo. Later it was housed in a permanent building. When it was destroyed in 1929 its last abbot was Ochir-Purdash Dzhungruev – also known as Purdash bagsh – who became a gelyung (monastic title) in 1904. He wa...
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Galina talks about the Bogdakhin Temple, including who built it and how it is maintained. This is he...
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Antonina talks about the first Buddhist Community in Kalmykia and how she set up the Friends of Tibe...
Tatyana recalls the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s as a hard time in her village wh...
Nadezhda says the following: I was born in Iki-Derbet. I am from the Akhnud clan. I finished three c...
Boris tells us a story about how a famous Kalmyk lama named Ulyadzhi bagshi Tazaev and a zaisang cal...
Antonina talks about the famous Kalmyk lama Zodva Natyrov whom she knew personally:In 1969, I came t...
Maria says that a temple that stood in Tsagan-Aman in the past was built by a Kalmyk lama who had bo...
Oleg talks about the lama Badma Bovaev: Badma Bovaev served in several temples, including the Baga-C...
Galina talks about the Bogdakhin Temple, including who built it and how it is maintained. This is he...
According to a legend, the Dalai Lama V and the Panchen Lama IV gave the Kalmyk people a mobile temp...
The video features a round-table discussion with Vladimir Gilyandikov, architect of two main Buddhis...
Olga talks about the construction of two temples in Elista, the Geden Sheddup Choikorling Temple (Ar...
Batyr’s monastic name is Gonbo Dordzhe. He was born in 1965 in a cattle farm in Orgakin and spent hi...
Oleg talks about the Baga-Chonos temple, its history and monks who served there: The new Baga-Chonos...
This video is shot at the Bogdo Uul Mountain in Astrakhan oblast. The Kalmyk pilgrims perform a ritu...
Boris tells us a story about how a famous Kalmyk lama named Ulyadzhi bagshi Tazaev and a zaisang cal...
Antonina talks about the first Buddhist Community in Kalmykia and how she set up the Friends of Tibe...
Tatyana recalls the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s as a hard time in her village wh...
Nadezhda says the following: I was born in Iki-Derbet. I am from the Akhnud clan. I finished three c...
Boris tells us a story about how a famous Kalmyk lama named Ulyadzhi bagshi Tazaev and a zaisang cal...
Antonina talks about the famous Kalmyk lama Zodva Natyrov whom she knew personally:In 1969, I came t...
Maria says that a temple that stood in Tsagan-Aman in the past was built by a Kalmyk lama who had bo...
Oleg talks about the lama Badma Bovaev: Badma Bovaev served in several temples, including the Baga-C...