Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia

Hambin Hyre (Хамбын Хурэ)

Representatives of the traditional religions - Pandito Hambo-Lama Damba Ayusheyev , Muchammad Rachimow , Talgat Tajuddin , Kyrill I , Berel Lazar - together with Vladimir Putin on the Day of People's Unity (2012) in front of the Minin and Poscharsky monument in front of Basil -Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow .

The Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia (Russian Buddiskaja tradizionnaja sangcha Rossii / Буддийская традиционная сангха России; scientific transliteration Buddijskaja tradicionnaja sangcha Rossii ; abbreviation BTSR ) is a central religious organization in Russia. It is the largest Buddhist community in Russia . Its head is the Khambo Lama ( Buryat. Bandido Hambo Lama) from the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, based in the Iwolginsky Dazan Buddhist monastery (Иволгинский дацан / Ivolginsky Datsan) in Buryatia near the Buryat capital Ulan-Ude . The current XXIV Pandito Hambo-Lama is Damba Ayusheyev . The Buddhist University Daschi Tschoinchorlin, which opened in 1991, is operated at the monastery.

In 1997 the organization was renamed to its current name at the All-Russian Buddhist Congress from the Central Spiritual Administration of Buddhists . It includes monasteries and communities in Buryatia , Kalmykia , Tuva , Altai and in the cities of Irkutsk , Omsk , Chita , Saint Petersburg and Moscow .

The organ of the organization is the magazine " Legshed " (Легшед).

See also

• Daschi-Dorscho Itigelow
• Hambo Lama (ru)
• Buddhism in Buryatia (en)
• Buddhism in Russia (en)
• Dam-Dorzho Zayaev (ru)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ cf. Pandita and Khenpo Lama (Tib. མཁན་ པོ་ བླ་ མ; Wylie: mkhan po bla ma)
2. ↑ Даши Чойнхорлин / Daši Čojnchorlin, also "Dashi Choynhorlin" / T. Trashi Chökhorling / bkra shis chos' khor gling
3. ↑ Ines Lasch, Isabella Löw: Business Know-how Russia: How to make your business trip a success . 2008 ( partial online view ), p. 45. - Cf. russland.ru: Religions in Russia: Brief overview ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• HS Huntley: A Note on Gusino Ozero, Seat of Imperial Russia's Buddhists . In: Asian Affairs. Vol. 25, No. 1, 1994, pp. 36-41

• П. К. Варнавский: "Национальная" религия в контексте глобализации: традиционный буддизм в в ковременации: буддизм в иркя. ред. А. Байбурин. - 2011. - № 14. - С. 192-211 ( online )

• Gabriele Gorzka: Russia's Path to Civil Society . 2000 ( partial online view )

Web links

• Official website: in Russian and in English
• First Buddhist university opened in Russia

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 15.3 "  N , 107 ° 11 ′ 54.3"  E