Egitui datsan and statue of zandan zhuu. Zandan Zhuu (Sandalwood Buddha). Buddhist legend about the appearance of the statue
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Living spiritual teaching spreads not only through conversations with the Teacher and reading books, but also through the visual perception of works of art, the interior, and architecture of temples. Learning through observation is associated with a visual model of the macrocosm of the universe and the microcosm of man. This observation allows you to see the subtlest spiritual experiences and moral qualities: love, joy, kindness, wisdom. An example of such dissemination of knowledge is religious shrines.
One of the revered shrines of the Buddhist world is a statue Sandalwood Buddha, Zandan Zhuu, located in the Egetui datsan of Buryatia. He is considered a living Buddha - his images carry grace. On the tanks he has a special iconography: he stands, with large long arms almost reaching his knees, among flowers and landscape. This is a bodily human Buddha, similar to Buddha Maitreya, but at the same time located among the blessed heavenly worlds.
The Sandalwood Buddha statue is considered to be an extant lifetime image of Shakyamuni Buddha, commissioned by Raja Uddiyana. There is a legend recorded by the Tocharian monk Dharmanandi in 385 AD. (in the Chinese translation of the Ekottara Agama Sutra from the Anuttara Nikaya according to A.A. Terentyev) that the Enlightened One was at that time in the heaven of the Thirty-Three Gods, preaching the Dharma to his mother Maya, who was reborn there after death. Raja Prasenajit desired to see the Enlightened One and ordered his statue to be sculpted. Maudgalyana, a disciple of the Buddha who achieved miraculous abilities, transported the masters to heaven, where they met the Enlightened One. The craftsmen were returned to earth and sculpted a life-size Goshirsha sandalwood statue of about two meters. height.
When Buddha Shakyamuni returned to the earthly world, the statue greeted him by taking 6 steps. And the Enlightened One made a prophecy that it would be moved to the north, and Buddhism would flourish there.
Chinese sources contain information about its movement from India at that time. In the 4th century, the monk Kumarayana from Kashmir, in order to save the statue from local wars, took it to Central Asia, where in Kucha (an oasis city on the Great Silk Road) he was forced to marry the sister of the ruler Jivaka and become a spiritual mentor in the state.
His son Kumarajiva became a famous Buddhist sage. His fame became so great that in 384 Chinese troops besieged Kucha in order to capture Kumarajiva and bring him to China. The Sandalwood Buddha statue was transported with him, and what followed was the rise of Buddhist thought in China.
At the beginning of the 8th century. The wives of the Tibetan king Srontsangambo from Nepal and China brought Buddhist relics, including the Sandalwood Buddha statue, to Tibet. Nepalese princess Bhrikuti was revered as Green Tara, and Chinese princess Wen-chen as White Tara. And already under the next ruler, King Tisrondetsan, Buddhism became the state religion of Tibet.
According to other Chinese sources, the statue first came to Mongolia during the reign of Genghis Khan in the 13th century. and then was transported to China, where it is unknown how many years it was kept in the province of Li, in the Sandan-Sy monastery specially built for it - “Monastery of the Sandalwood Buddha.”
The story of her stay in Russia is amazing.
In China in 1890-1901. The Boxer Rebellion broke out (Yihetuan Uprising, secret society I-he-quan “Fist for Justice of Consent”). In June 1901, Beijing was captured by rebels, burned and destroyed. The Sandalwood Buddha statue was kept in the Sandan-sy monastery - “Sandalwood Buddha Monastery”, where all the Buddhist pilgrims of Mongolia, Buryatia and Tibet worshiped it when visiting Beijing. Orientalist and one of the oldest Russian Buddhists V.M. Montlevich writes about this: “But fragments of information about the abduction itself have been preserved, and this information is more or less reliable, because the famous Russian orientalist Boris Ivanovich Pankratov told it to me in 1969, for many years (32 years, from 1916 to 1948). spent in China.
In the winter of 1901, after the defeat of the Boxer Uprising, the Buryat Cossacks, taking advantage of the turmoil and devastation in the city and a fire in the monastery itself, took out the statue. The operation was led by the head of the Russian post office, Gomboev. The statue was placed on a sleigh, covered with straw and matting, and disguised with provisions and postal props. There were two sleighs in total; the statue was transported on a second, as if cargo, sleigh. One can imagine the awe and desperate delight of those who carried out this bold and dangerous undertaking, because they performed a religious feat for the sake of spreading the Teaching, certainly fulfilling the order of unknown and revered teachers and lamas. The performers knew that there was a belief: where the Sandalwood Buddha is located, there is the center of the Buddhist religion. What believer would not be delighted to consider his country and his datsan as such a center. Without any special incidents, the statue arrived in Transbaikalia and was hidden in the Egituisky monastery (datsan).
Then a metal copy of the statue was made and placed in the Egituisky datsan; the original was carefully hidden in secret place. This precaution was entirely appropriate.
The uprising in China was brutally suppressed by the forces of England, Germany, Russia, Japan and France in September 1901. And soon Japanese experts arrived in Buryatia to search for famous statue. The Japanese had information that the statue was located in the Egituisky datsan. Those who arrived were shown a metal copy, and they were forced to leave in complete disappointment.
After the revolution, in the thirties, when Buddhism was in disgrace, the Sandalwood Buddha became a “prisoner” for many years - it is stored in a glass cabinet on the second floor of the Odigitrievskaya Church in Ulan-Ude, where the funds of the Museum of Local Lore are housed. And, I must say, this was a happy fate for the statue, because in those hard years, many wonderful religious monuments of antiquity perished in fire and unsightly storage conditions. Only in the 80s was the statue returned to the believers, no longer secretly, but openly placed in the same Egituisky datsan where the metal copy once stood.”
The prediction comes true, and the appearance of Zandan Zhuu in Transbaikalia in the twentieth century. is a good omen for the development of Dharma in Russia.
The Sandalwood Buddha statue seems to emanate Buddhist teachings from itself, creating conditions for everyone interacting with it in the form of karmic situations favorable for the prosperity of the Dharma. The statue manifests itself as a living Buddha, arousing interest in the texts and teachings, awakening the desire to study Buddhist thinking - the possibility of practicing the Dharma.
Friday, February 07
13th lunar day with the element Fire. Auspicious day for people born in the year of the Horse, Sheep, Monkey and Chicken. Today is a good day to lay the foundation, build a house, dig the ground, start treatment, buy medicinal preparations, herbs, and conduct matchmaking. Going on the road means increasing your well-being. Unfavorable day for people born in the year of the Tiger and Rabbit. It is not recommended to make new acquaintances, make friends, start teaching, get a job, hire a nurse, workers, or buy livestock. Haircut- to happiness and success.
Saturday, February 08
14th lunar day with the element Earth. Auspicious day for people born in the year of the Cow, Tiger and Rabbit. Today is a good day to ask for advice, avoid dangerous situations, perform rituals to improve life and wealth, move to a new position, buy livestock. Unfavorable day for people born in the year of the Mouse and Pig. It is not recommended to write essays, publish works on scientific activities, listen to teachings, lectures, start a planned business, get or help get a job, or hire workers. Going on the road means big troubles, as well as separation from loved ones. Haircut- to increase wealth and livestock.
Sunday, February 09
15th lunar day with the element Iron. Benevolent deeds and sinful acts committed on this day will multiply a hundred times. A favorable day for people born in the year of the Dragon. Today you can build a dugan, suburgan, lay the foundation of a house, build a house, start a planned business, study and comprehend science, open a bank account, sew and cut clothes, as well as for tough decisions on some issues. Not recommended move, change place of residence and work, bring a daughter-in-law, give a daughter as a bride, and also hold a funeral and wake. Hitting the road means bad news. Haircut- to good luck, to favorable consequences.
Screenshot from the website yelo-rinpoche.ru, press service of the datsan "Rinpoche Bagsha"
Thousands of believers presented offerings to the Great Teacher [photo, video]
On Saturday, September 10, Venerable Yeshe Lodoy Rinpoche performed a ritual to consecrate the 33-meter-high image of Buddha Shakyamuni, carved on the Bayan Khongor rock. Last year, a statue of Buddha, custom-made in India, was erected on a hill near the village of Bayangol, and three stupas of reconciliation were consecrated. The following year, the people of Bayangol asked for help in building 8 stupas around Lake Mogoi. It is planned to place 4 thousand figurines of various Buddhist deities in the suburgans.
Buddha Shakyamuni on Mount Bayan-Khongor near the village of Bayangol is a unique creation. It will be awarded the title of the largest Buddha image in Russia and will be included in the list of the largest Buddha images in the world.
Idea, build giant buddha, residents of Bayangol said at a village meeting. With this initiative they approached the datsan on Bald Mountain in Ulan-Ude by Yeshe Lodoy Rinpoche. The rector supported the people's proposal. Moreover, as it turned out, this was his long-time dream.
Big Buddha is a great benefit for all of Russia
“About 15-16 years ago we visited the “heart” of Baikal for the first time - Olkhon Island, went on a boat along the Irkutsk shore,” recalls Rinpoche’s closest student Geshe Lharamba Tenzin Lama, “Majestic rocks growing out of the water surface and rushing into the sky , impressed Bagsha with their beauty and power. And then he had an idea - to make a large statue of the World Precious Teacher Buddha Shakyamuni in the rock. In Asian countries this is an ancient tradition, but in Russia there was nothing like it.”
Help site: The world's largest and oldest Buddha carved into a rock is located in the Chinese province of Sichuan. Its height is 71 meters, age is about 1200 years. It took almost 90 years to build. The most big statue in the world - also Buddhas. And it is also located in China, in Henan province. The 128-meter monument depicts Buddha Vairochana, one of the five sacred Buddhas who personify wisdom. The idea to create a grandiose shrine came to the Chinese after the Taliban barbarically destroyed two huge Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001. Their age was dated to the 6th century AD.
“Then we began to look for a suitable object. On Baikal it was difficult to do this purely technically. They also searched in other areas. Sometimes there were rocks that were too low, sometimes too high, sometimes too prominent. And last year, when we also installed a statue of Buddha near Bayangol, but a small one, one meter high, made to special order in India from onyx, I noticed the neighboring rock. It was ideal for realizing the Teacher’s idea - smooth, beautiful and quite high, about fifty meters. And most importantly - ideally located!
Typically, Buddhist shrines are built “facing” south, be they temples, stupas or statues. We consciously wanted to move a little away from this tradition and make sure that the Buddha’s gaze was directed towards Moscow and other large Russian cities. In such a difficult time, it was simply necessary to do this for the benefit of the entire country and all living beings! At all times, the construction of Buddha statues, stupas, and datsans was considered a very beneficial deed. In the places where they appear, everything comes into harmony. In nature, various kinds of disasters cease, mutual understanding comes into people’s relationships, they get sick less and die from accidents, all living things find peace and tranquility,” says Tenzin Lama.
“But the Teacher then said that the time had not yet come. And now, a year later, the residents of the Khorinsky district themselves came up with this proposal. The Bayan-Khongor rock has long been considered among the Khorin Buryats sacred place. Here, residents of the village of Bayan-Gol 2 times a year - in the summer and on the second day of Sagaalgan - hold oboo, and throughout the year they often come to worship the shrines. The so-called munkhanas are installed here - small houses in which thangkas and figurines of Buddhist deities are located. Last year a Buddha statue and 3 stupas appeared. Rinpoche thought about it for a long time and finally agreed. Moreover, this is the birthplace of his root Teacher.
Website reference: Venerable Yeshe Lodoy Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1943. At the age of three he was recognized as the fourth rebirth of Yelo Rinpoche. In Tibet, such people are called tuluku - it is believed that they consciously continue the chain of their rebirths, devoting their lives to helping all living beings.
From the age of seven, Yelo Rinpoche devoted himself to monasticism and the study of Buddhist philosophy. In 1959, due to the occupation of Tibet by China, he left his homeland and moved through the kingdom of Bhutan to India, where he continued his studies.
The root Teacher of Yeshe Lodoya Rinpoche is Lama Dulva-hambo Thubten Choki, a Buryat by nationality. The renowned tantra master taught Yelo Rinpoche a course in vinaya - monastic discipline. Also, under the leadership of a lama from Buryatia, the Venerable Agwan-Nima, in 1979, Yelo Rinpoche defended the title of “geshe-lharamba” - the highest Buddhist academic degree. In 1993, at the request of the Buryat clergy and on behalf of His Holiness, he arrived in Buryatia, in Ivolginsky datsan for teaching at the Tashi Choinohrling Buddhist Institute. Since then, Yeshe Lodoy Rinpoche remained to live and work in Buryatia, for the benefit of all living beings and the prosperity of the Dharma.
In 1999, at an audience with the Dalai Lama, Yelo Rinpoche conveyed the requests of believers from Buryatia to open a Buddhist center and received His Holiness’s blessing to begin construction. 5 years later, in 2004, the opening of the Rinpoche Bagsha datsan took place on Bald Mountain in Ulan-Ude.
The plan was implemented quite quickly. All necessary approvals have been passed. Sponsors, craftsmen, and artists were found. Local residents actively helped during construction. The image of Shakyamuni Buddha was made as majestic as possible, but with minimal impact on nature. They did not carve a full-fledged statue or bas-relief. They just removed the top layer of the rock, drew the outlines of the World Teacher seated in the lotus position and painted it with paint.
The height of the image is exactly 33 meters. In Buddhism, this number also has its own sacred meaning. It is believed that there is the most high world on Earth, the so-called Trayastrimsha - “World of 33 Gods” or “Collection of 33 Gods”, which is located on the top of Mount Sumeru. Trayastrimsha is often mentioned in Buddhist texts when the Buddha ascends to the Thirty-three Gods, or the gods of this world themselves descend to earth to meet the Buddha.
“The creation of the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha is not accidental. Buddha Shakyamuni, the highest nirmanakaya, was born in our world, performed twelve feats, including turning the Wheel of the Teaching. All the time that the Buddha’s Teaching remains in the world, it is an incomparable, limitless cure for the diseases of our obscurations and suffering. Let the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni become a symbol of the unification of our pure intentions in the implementation of the teachings and a symbol of the fact that the Buddhist teachings - the dharma that the Buddha gave 2500 years ago, and now resides in our world,” says the teacher.
About 4 thousand people attended the Ramney ritual. 80 buses transported pilgrims from the Square of Soviets free of charge. After the consecration ritual, a festive concert and sports competitions took place.
Interview with Venerable Yeshe Loda Rinpoche:
- At the end of the ritual, a symbolic million flowers were offered to the image of Buddha? Is this some kind of tradition?
When a Buddha statue is created, the image of Buddha is a great virtue. And when an image of such a gigantic size is created, it is also a huge, incomparable virtue! Accordingly, the larger, richer and more beautiful the offerings, the more good merit we accumulate. And flowers in Buddhism are a traditional type of offering, along with white food, sweets and fruits.
- Why is the height of the Buddha image exactly 33 meters?
In the Buddhist tradition there is such a good attitude towards the number “33”, there is even an abode of the gods of 33 deities. Initially, it was not planned to make the image so large, but when they measured the rock, it turned out that it was about 55 meters high. Then they decided to make it exactly 33 meters. It fits in very harmoniously. This is also a kind of sign.
Hello, dear readers – seekers of knowledge and truth!
An amazing monument to Buddha, created during the lifetime of Teacher Shakyamuni himself, has survived to this day. The monument is called Sandalwood Buddha. What’s even more surprising about this fact is that it is located in Russia, namely in one of the datsans in Buryatia, so we simply have to tell you about it.
The centuries-old history of the statue, its appearance, features – the article below will tell you everything. You will also learn a wonderful legend about the creation of the monument. And for those who are already preparing to travel to see the shrine with their own eyes, we have collected useful information about where the datsan is located and how it works.
What kind of statue is this
Sandalwood Buddha, Sandalwood Lord or, in the Buryat manner, Zandan Zhuu is the most valuable relic of Buddhism. The fact is that this is the only statue created during the life of Shakyamuni.
Of course, there are skeptics who claim that other sculptures and paintings were also created before his parinirvana. This may be true, but in any case, Zandan Zhuu is the only one of them that has survived to this day.
Now Zandan Zhuu is located in the Egituisky datsan of the Buryat Republic. He is identified with the living Buddha. It is believed that the energy of Shakyamuni is concentrated in it, and therefore the statue is capable of bestowing goodness. Many of those who happened to visit her confirm this action.
Zandan Zhuu has powerful energy: some visitors leave, unable to stay near the shrine for a long time, while others, on the contrary, can sit in front of it for hours without noticing the time.
According to Buddhist views, the statue promotes purification, a happy long life, full of health and successful events. The main thing is to sincerely believe in it, combine it with regular practice and a lifestyle worthy of a Buddhist.
In addition to the undeniable reverence of Buddhists around the world, the sandalwood Buddha has earned the title of a monument of Russian culture at the federal level.
Legend of the appearance
According to the Buddhist text "Anutara Nikaya", written in the 4th century AD by the priest Dharmanandi, the appearance of the lifetime statue of the Teacher has an interesting mythical history. Shakyamuni was in the Tushita heaven, where he shared the basics of teaching with his mother Maya. At this time, the Indian king Prasenajit wanted to see the Teacher, but this was not possible.
Then the master architects who met with Gautama were sent to heaven. Returning to earth, they sculpted the body of the Buddha from sandalwood with amazing accuracy from memory.
Returning to the human world himself, Shakyamuni saw that his sandalwood copy had taken 6 steps towards him. Then the Teacher predicted that the statue would gradually move further and further north, and Buddhism would begin to flourish in that area. And so it happened - crowds flock to the Egituysky datsan, which carefully preserves the all-Buddhist shrine.
Egituisky datsan in Buryatia
Another version, less legendary, but obviously more reliable, says that the statue was ordered by the Indian Raja Udiyana more than 2.5 thousand years ago. Shakyamuni was then 38 years old.
Historical reference
Over the years, the statue has undergone many movements. They can be traced on a map of Asia.
Created on ancient Indian territory, in the 3rd century it was moved to Chinese lands. She remained there for a relatively short time - hostilities began in the Celestial Empire in the 4th century, and one Kashmiri monk took her with him to the former Buddhist country of Kucha, where he himself took the post of chief confessor.
By the 8th century, the wife of the ruler of Tibet brought the monument with them to the future Lhasa. Very soon the Buddhist teaching conquered the Tibetans with its truth. By the 13th century, the location of the statue was called Mongolian steppes, where she stayed for several centuries, and then - the Chinese monastery of Sandan Sy.
Tibet, Lhasa
With the advent of the 20th century, there was unrest in the capital of China, and in January 1901, a fire broke out in the monastery where the Sandalwood Lord was kept. Cossacks originally from Buryatia rescued him from the fire and brought him to their small homeland. This is how the sculpture ended up in the Egituisky datsan.
There is a version that Buryat craftsmen created a copy of the shrine from metal, exhibited it in the datsan hall, and hid the original. When the Japanese found out where the Buddha statue was kept, they came to the datsan to take it away, but found only a copy.
IN Soviet time religious sites were destroyed, temples and churches were closed, and Buddhist datsans were no exception. Then Zandan Zhuu was sent to the Buryat capital - Ulan-Ude. It was kept in the local history museum and only returned to the Buddhists half a century later.
In September 1991, an important event occurred - the statue on air transport returned to the datsan. At the beginning of this century, it was ranked among the Buddhist shrines of the Russian Federation.
Appearance
The statue of the Sandalwood Lord looks very majestic - 2 meters 18 centimeters. It is made of sandalwood, but some researchers claim that in reality the material is linden, coated with sandalwood-based paint.
Sandalwood Buddha in Egituysky datsan, Buryatia
Zandan Zhuu's arms are long: the right one is raised and bent at the elbow, symbolizing greetings and good intentions, and the other is lowered down, parallel to the body, but the palm faces outward. The Buddha's eyelids are peacefully closed, and his eyes look slightly upward.
Temple for shrine
The Zandana Zhuu Temple is located in the Egituisky datsan, which in Tibetan is called Damchoy Ravzheling. Built in the 19th century, it did not survive the 1930s. By the early 2000s it was rebuilt.
Some visitors are surprised by the facade of the building, made according to the generally accepted canons of Tibetan temples, but made of ceramic tiles. This architectural solution is caused by fire safety considerations.
Around the same time, a separate one-story dugan was built specifically for storing the statue. The trends of modern architecture are followed there, and the implemented technologies help maintain the required temperature, humidity, and lighting. This temple was consecrated in the summer of 2008.
Today datsan is a pleasant place in the middle picturesque nature, where Buddhist pilgrims come, as well as simply curious tourists. The territory is quite vast, there are bells and other attributes all around, immersing you in the atmosphere of Buddhism. Khurals are held on certain days.
Helpful information
How to get to the Egituisky datsan: from the capital Ulan-Ude, 280 kilometers along the eastern road to the Khara-Shibir area near the Marakta River. The full address that the navigator will help you find: Buryatia, Eravninsky district, Egita village, Datsan street, building 3.
The datsan is open to visitors every day from 10 am to 7 pm. The schedule of khurals can be viewed on the official website.
Conclusion
The Sandalwood Buddha statue is a unique heritage of its kind and the main shrine in Buddhism. Therefore, it is especially pleasant that it is located in our country, in the Buryat Egituisky datsan. The statue was created under the Teacher himself, and subsequently traveled hundreds of kilometers over the course of 2.5 thousand years. It was where the statue appeared that the teachings of Shakyamuni spread.
Thank you very much for your attention, dear readers! I would like to believe that after reading our article, you will certainly want to visit the datsan, where the statue is sacredly kept, to see it with your own eyes.
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We were taken to the border of the Eravninsky district to a poetic rock garden dedicated to the poets of Buryatia.
This is how Eravninsky district greets
I'll write more about this a little later. Next we went deep into the Eravninsky district to the Khara-Shibir area, where on the banks of the Marakta River there is the Egituisky datsan with the sacred statue of the Sandalwood Buddha - Zandan Zhuu.
I admit, it was only on this trip that I learned that there is a statue of the Sandalwood Buddha in Buryatia. And this is not just a statue, but according to legend, the only lifetime sculpture of Buddha Shakyamuni, which is recognized as a Buddhist shrine in Russia. It is a world shrine of Buddhists, made entirely of sandalwood, the height of the statue is 2 m. 18 cm. The statue was made by order of Raja Uddiyana 2800 thousand years ago.
The statue came to the territory of Russia in Eravna thanks to the incredible efforts of the Sorzho Lama of the Egitui datsan Gombo Dorzho Erdyneev and many other people who risked their lives. Sandalwood statue was purchased by the lamas of the datsan during the Boxer uprising in China. According to another version, in the winter of 1901, after the defeat of the uprising in Beijing, the Buryat Cossacks carried out a precious statue from a burning monastery during a fire, and thereby saved it from death in the fire. As a trophy, the statue was taken with great care on a sleigh to Buryatia. At the same time, a metal copy of the statue was made, and the original was hidden. Until 1935, the statue was located in one of the sumes of the Egituisky datsan and was an object of worship and veneration. During the period of anti-religious repressions, the statue was transported to Ulan-Ude and kept in the funds National Museum history of Buryatia. ()
Before entering the temple-dugan of the Sandalwood Buddha, we were told the history of the Egitui datsan and the history of the Zandan Zhuu statue. 
They also warned that the expression on the Sandalwood Buddha’s face changes depending on the viewing angle, and maybe on his attitude towards you, who knows :) Personally, when I walked in and looked at the Sandalwood Buddha’s face for the first time, it seemed to me that he was looking at us somewhat dissatisfied. 
His lips were pursed in displeasure and the squinting of his eyes did not bode well. When I prayed and made offerings in the form of sweets and coins, my face seemed to become kinder and a slight smile appeared. Right there in the datsan there is a wooden board for prostrations, smoothly polished by the prostrations of those praying. I also did 21 prostrations praying for health, happiness and prosperity.
Someone may ask why exactly 21 times? The fact is that in Buddhism the numbers 3, 7, 21 and 108 have sacred meaning. Therefore, you need to read prayers, do goroo or prostrations exactly this number of times.
After the prostrations, the Sandalwood Buddha, it seemed to me, smiled with satisfaction. I shared my observations with a friend with whom we went on this trip together. And you know, our feelings and observations agreed on almost everything.
At the end of the visit, we had a lecture-discussion of Buddhism in general and Buddhism of Buryatia in particular. It turned out that pilgrims travel from Buryatia to Tibet every year. Tibetan lamas, having learned from which places they come, are very surprised and ask why they are traveling so far, when in their homeland there is the greatest shrine of world Buddhism - the statue of the Sandalwood Buddha Zandan Zhuu. I am more than sure that half of the population of Buryatia does not even know about its existence, not to mention other regions of Russia. I was convinced of this when I interviewed my relatives and friends. But many of us have already been to Thailand and seen statues of the reclining Buddha, jade Buddha and many others. It’s somehow sad that we don’t appreciate and don’t notice what we have nearby.
More articles about a trip to Buddhist datsans and holy places of Buryatia:
- Holy places of Buryatia
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