The crisis surrounding Moscow’s first Buddhist stupa

Republic of Tuva hosts landmark Buddhist conference

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

The year was 1993, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two years had passed since the heroic city of Leningrad was rechristened Saint Petersburg, its imperial name. Vasily Repin was a stud

The great Buddhist heritage of Russia

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!

The conflict between Buddhism and Communism reaches a climax

The story of Russian Buddhism continues into the 21st century

In a past article, I suggested a three-point plan that ambitious and gifted Buddhist leaders could consider implementing for an authentic “21st Century Buddhism”. These were: help pro