Russia's only extant Buddhist temple from pre-Soviet times

The flourishing of the Buddhist tradition in the Russian Federation

Raymond Lam travels to the windswept steppes of Kalmykia to explore the history of a genuine frontier of Eurasian Buddhism.

Unique insights from the driving force behind the restoration of Buddhism in Kalmykia

Editor’s note: Bakaeva Elza Petrovna has a PhD in History and is Deputy Director of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation, Republic of Kalmykia, El

A four-part series on the Buddhist diffusion in Russia!