Posts Tagged ‘Buddhist culture’
Opening of the art exhibition “Space of Color and Light”
Art
On October 3, 2024, at 16:00, in the exotic southern city of Elista, the capital of the mysterious Kalmykia, in the “Blue Hall” of the National Museum of the Republic of Kalmykia named after N. Palmov, the opening of a personal art exhibition of Delgr Sangadzhieva entitled “Space of Color and Light” will take place, Read the rest of this entry »
Decree on declaring May 26, 2021, the National holiday “Birthday of the Buddha Shakyamuni”!
Decree on declaring May 26, 2021, the National holiday “Birthday of the Buddha Shakyamuni”!
In accordance with part 7 of article 4 Read the rest of this entry »
I am Buddha
Performance “I am Buddha”
At the heart of the play “I am Buddha” is the story of how Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) comes to comprehend the main issue of life. Read the rest of this entry »
Professor from St. Petersburg about Buddhism, kalmyk art, ritual dances and temples
Professor from St. Petersburg Svetlana Makhlina about Buddhism, kalmyk culture, ritual dances and temples
Buddhism – historically the first world religion. And yet, as Borges said, is “the most widespread religion in the world”. In Russia, the earliest penetration of Buddhism was characteristic of the Kalmyk people, who took more than 400 years ago.
Kalmyk culture germinated on the unique cultural soil elyutov who lived in a colorful country where the vast steppes “stretched white, happiness, koshmovye tent noble Noyon and zaisangs, but black as a bitter fate, tents commoners – albatu, ketchinerov and shabinerov”. Read the rest of this entry »
Textbook “Fundamentals of Buddhist culture”
Textbook “Fundamentals of Buddhist culture” was published in Moscow (Russia) for 4th level school.
Authors of textbook: Baatr Kitinov, Ksenia Savchenko and Marina Yakushkina.
News from kalmykian paper “Elistinskaya panorama”
Elista, Kalmykia
Dalai Lama XIV in Kalmykia
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s visit in the summer of 1991 became a marvelous in the life of the steppe republic.
The Bodhisattva of Compassion Dalai Lama stepped on the Kalmyk land for the first time during centuries-old history of Oirat-Kalmyks. Extremely deep love, joy, kindless towards the Teacher expressed by our reserved people was felt every where. Read the rest of this entry »