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This cluster of wildly eclectic, multicolored pagoda-style temples, rising out of the dusty steppe a few miles south of Ulan-Ude, is something almost unique in a Russian landscape.
It’s a sprawling Buddhist monastery, with a religious university at its core, something like the Vatican of Buddhism in Russia and a living monument to the rapid revival of traditional religions in post-Soviet Russia. Just 30 years ago there was only one little wooden dugan, or temple, in this place: the first – and for a long time, only – one allowed to exist in the entire Soviet Union. Now there are almost 40 temple complexes in Buryatiaalone, as the native Mongol-speaking Buryats enthusiastically rediscover their ancestral beliefs.
The Christian Science Monitor Daily for August 10, 2018
This is an interesting article on CSM. It's part of a series.
It’s a sprawling Buddhist monastery, with a religious university at its core, something like the Vatican of Buddhism in Russia and a living monument to the rapid revival of traditional religions in post-Soviet Russia. Just 30 years ago there was only one little wooden dugan, or temple, in this place: the first – and for a long time, only – one allowed to exist in the entire Soviet Union. Now there are almost 40 temple complexes in Buryatiaalone, as the native Mongol-speaking Buryats enthusiastically rediscover their ancestral beliefs.
The Christian Science Monitor Daily for August 10, 2018
This is an interesting article on CSM. It's part of a series.
