AGINSKOYE SETTLEMENT /Transbaikalia region/. August 11. /TASS/. More than 130 Buddhist lamas from various Russian regions and Mongolia have conducted an hours-long ...

The three Buddhist-dominated regions of Russia - Buryatia, Kalmykia, and Tuva together constitute the 'Golden Triangle' also referred to as the 'Holy Triangle' of Buddha Dhamma in Russia. The ...

Kalmykia, the only region with a Buddhist majority in the European part of Russia, welcomed delegations from 35 countries around the world. Putin himself sent a message praising its ‘precious ...

After denying the Dalai Lama’s visa requests for years, Russia has finally relented and allowed the Buddhist spiritual leader to visit the country. He will spend most of his time in the southern ...

ARSHAN, Russia - Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims trekked to a temple in the southern republic of Kalmykia on Tuesday for prayers led by the Dalai Lama during his first visit to Russia in a decade. The ...

ELISTA, Russia (AP) -- In a story about the Dalai Lama, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Buddhist spiritual leader was making his first visit to Russia. He traveled to Russia several ...

The Russian Federation is an authentically multiconfessional society, as opposed to the West’s imported multiculturalism and militant secularism – or so goes the story promoted by the Russian state ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The self-exiled supreme lama of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, who was the first religious leader in the country who publicly condemned Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has announced his resignation.

A wrestler from Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus region of Daghestan has been detained after desecrating a Buddhist temple in the neighboring Russian region of Kalmykia. The head of Kalmykia, ...