


The Path of the First Acharya in Russia: An Interview with Bem Mitruev, Part 1
Lyudmila Klasanova
28 September 2020
Buddhist studies and the revival of Buddhism in…

Mongolian Tsam, Socialist Realism: People’s Painter Urjingiin Yadamsuren
Joseph Houseal
11 September 2020
One of the great ethnographers of Buddhist…

Stalin, Mao, and White Tara: A Creative Reframing of History by Russian Buddhists
Valeria Gazizova
3 June 2020
Secular expressions of a karmic destiny

Interview with Zorigma Budaeva: Abbess of the Only Female Buddhist Monastery in Russia
Lyudmila Klasanova
27 April 2020
Faith and the Dharma in Buryatia

The Kalmyk Temple of Victory: Survival of Buddhism on the Volga
Valeria Gazizova
17 August 2019
Russia’s only extant Buddhist temple from pre-Soviet times

The Dalai Lama’s Visits to Kalmykia
Lyudmila Klasanova
26 September 2018
An overview from 1991 to the present day

A History of Buddhism in Russia: The Sangha and the Soviets
Dr. Andrey Terentyev
24 November 2013
Dr. Terentyev’s third article in this series builds on the historical tensions between successive Russian administrations and the country’s Buddhist communities, which climaxed in the