Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

BUDDHISM

Buddhism: translation

Buddhism is an indigenousreligionof a number of Russia’s ethnic groups andnational minorities, including theKalmyks,Tuvans, andBuryats. Nationwide, there are approximately 70,000 Buddhists in the Russian Federation. Nearly all of these follow the Lamaist school, which is associated with Tibetan Buddhism and part of the Mahayana branch of the religion, though immigrants fromChinaand Vietnam practice Theravada Buddhism.A small number ofethnic Russianshave also converted to Buddhism in recent years. There are Buddhist temples inMoscowandSt.Petersburg, which serve various diasporic communities of Buddhists.
The history of the faith in Russia dates back at least four centuries to when imperial expansion began to include areas in southernSiberiaand theRussian Far East. In the 17th century, the Mongolic Kalmyks migrated to the lowerVolgaregion, establishing the only Buddhist community on the European continent. Tsarist authorities were relatively tolerant of Buddhistinovertsy(non-Orthodox subjects), while the Soviets attempted to mold the faith and its leaders to fit the ideological needs of the regime. In post-Soviet Russia, Lamaist Buddhism (along withOrthodox Christianity,Islam, andJudaism) is recognized by the 1993Constitution of the Russian Federationas a “native” religion, and is thus free from the restrictions placed on nonindigenous faiths such as Protestantism and Scientology. In the traditionally Buddhist regions of the Russian Federation, a spiritual revival has been under way since the late 1980s; this is particularly true inKalmykiyawhere PresidentKirsan Ilyumzhinovhas funded the building and renovation of temples. In Asiatic Russia, traditional forms ofshamanismare often syncretisticly incorporated into the practice of Buddhism.
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, has twice visited the faithful in Russia, once in the early 1990s and again in 2004, sparking criticism fromChina. The Ivolga Datsan, a monastery located inBuryatiyanearLake Baykal, is the most important Buddhist site in the Russian Federation.

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