About the Traditions of the Transfer of Knowledge among the Buddhists of Kalmykia in 1950–1980s

Abstract

The article reveals the consequences of closure of the Buddhist educational centers in Kalmykia and the atheistic policy as a whole, which have changed traditions of transfer of knowledge among believers after the restoration of the autonomy and to the new wave of revival of religion in the late of 1980s.

Keywords

• buddhism
• kalmykia
• educational centers
• monasteries
• atheistic policy
• transfer of knowledge
• traditions