Buddhism and Urbanism in Post-Soviet Buryatia

Authors

  • Bato Dondukov Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ulan-Ude , Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ułan Ude https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5501-9858 (unauthenticated)
  • Oyuna Dorzhigushaeva Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ulan-Ude , Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ułan Ude https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-0915 (unauthenticated)
  • Galina Dondukova Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ulan-Ude , Восточно-Сибирский государственный университет технологий и управления [East Siberia State University of Technology and Management], Ułan Ude https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4390-7556 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2411

Keywords:

Buryat Buddhism, anti-urbanism, post-Soviet Buryatia, environmental ethics

Abstract

With the collapse of the Soviet Union the traditionally Buddhist regions of Russia, including the Republic of Buryatia, experienced the revival of religion. Along with the traditional Gelug school of Mahayana Buddhism existing on the territories around Lake Baikal for more than three hundred years, the globalized model of Buddhism started to spread quickly in Buryatia in the 1990s. Tibetan Buddhist teachers started to establish new Buddhist organizations in Buryatia and thus to transform the urban landscape of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the republic. The article traces how global and local Buddhist organizations become represented in the urban landscape of Ulan-Ude and considers the anti-urban position of Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev.

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2021-12-20

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No. 10 (2021): Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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