About the Life of Buddhists - Buryats of the Soviet Union

Types of Buryatia: forest, mountains, steppes, herds of cows and herds of horses, flocks of sheep. Lake Baikal. General view of work on the electrification of railways. Types of Ulan-Ude - the capital of Buryatia: streets, buildings, public on the streets. General view of the Ivolginsky Buddhist temple, the residence of the head of the USSR Buddhists Lama Zhambal Dorzhi Gomboev. Divine service in the temple. Buryat artists are working on the manufacture of religious items for Buddhist temples. View of the library in the Ivolginsky temple. Buddhist monks read holy books in the library. Festive service - khural in the datsan. Meeting of the Spiritual Administration of Buddhists. General view of the Aginsky datsan. Religious debate in the temple (synchronously). The funeral rite of northern Buddhists. Prayer service in one of the Buryat houses on the occasion of the birth of a child. Lama reads a prayer (synchronously). The "Mandarin Khural" holiday is the holiday of the coming Buddha: the lamas read prayers, beat drums, cymbals, and distribute grain. Procession around the datsan. Meeting in Buryatia Bandido of the Hambo Lama of Mongolia. Signing of a joint appeal.

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1968