Posts Tagged ‘Padmasambhava’

New Buddhist Temple will be opened near Elista

Orgyen Sangngak Choling About New Buddhist Temple [ Ru ]

New Buddhist Temple will be opened near Elista. For Sanctify the temple will come Namka Drime Rinpoche.

Opening ceremony of new temple «Orgyen Sangngak Choling» (Abode of Secret Mantra) on September 2.

After ceremony: Tantric ritual Namjom. Read the rest of this entry »

Professor from St. Petersburg about Buddhism, kalmyk art, ritual dances and temples

Kalmyk art Professor from St. Petersburg Svetlana Makhlina about Buddhism, kalmyk culture, ritual dances and temples

Buddhism – historically the first world religion. And yet, as Borges said, is “the most widespread religion in the world”. In Russia, the earliest penetration of Buddhism was characteristic of the Kalmyk people, who took more than 400 years ago.

Kalmyk culture germinated on the unique cultural soil elyutov who lived in a colorful country where the vast steppes “stretched white, happiness, koshmovye tent noble Noyon and zaisangs, but black as a bitter fate, tents commoners – albatu, ketchinerov and shabinerov”. Read the rest of this entry »