Publication details
Histoire et renoveau du bouddhisme en Sibérie: Lexemple du datsan dAga
| Title in English | The History and Revival of Buddhism in Siberia: An Example of the Aga Monastery |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slavica occitania |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | History and Revival of Buddhism; Siberia; Aga Monastery |
| Description | The paper deals with the history, but above all the presence of Aginskyi Datsan, the biggest and the most important monastery of Aginskyi Buryat Autonomous District. Since the date of its foundation, this monastery has played the leading role in this region, where there were eight monasteries altogether before 1937. The monastery gained its present shape in the turn of 19th and 20th century. The importance and role of Aginskyi Monastery can only be assessed in the context of overall development of Buddhism in Buryatia. Aginskoe Monastery experienced its biggest architectural and social advancement at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century, when about 1 000 monks lived there. In the period after the Bolshevik revolution, Aginskyi Monastery shared a fate of all the other Buryat monasteries: its activities were violently stopped. Unlike the other monasteries, its sacral buildings were preserved because they had been built of stone, which was not typical of Buryatia. |
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