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In Buryatia started excavations of an ancient Buddhist monastery

Lama Shulutskogo datsan in Buryatia region Zaigraevskom trying to beat black archeologists. Today on Shulutskogo datsan, who at the beginning of last century looked great religious complex, leaving only the main temple - Tsogchen-dugan, which in Soviet times, surprisingly remained intact.

Its walls have kept the memory of the glorious past, its great inhabitants: Pandito Hambo llamas Choydor Marhaeve, Guro Dharma [...]

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The competition for the publication of books in the Buryat language "URAN ZOHEOLOY YURTEMSE"

Terms and conditions of competition for book publishing
for obtaining the grant "URAN ZOHEOLOY YURTEMSE"
I. General Provisions
1.1. This Regulation governs the tender competition for the selection of works to implement the project of publishing the best works in the Buryat language "URAN ZOHEOLOY YURTEMSE."
2. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPETITION
2.1. The purpose of the contest: Identify papers for projects to [...]

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Steppe were fiction - a book of nomads

First published collection of common folklore
Presentation of the book was held in the Convent of the Mongols of the world on July 15 at the National Library. The book was the concluding event of the opening of the Cultural and Information Center of Mongolia. Among the guests of honor presentation - Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj.
For several years the authors of the draft texts were treated with a large reservoir of Mongolian peoples from the Middle Ages and ending with the beginning of XXI [...]

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A monument Dorji Banzarov - first Buryat scholar

A monument to the first Buryat scholar

13/06/2010


The sculpture, depicting Banzarov Dorji, June 11, appeared in Dzhida region of Buryatia.

10-11 June 2010 Dzhidinsky district celebrated the 75th anniversary of his birth. In June 11th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the monument first Buryat scholar and an outstanding son of the earth Dzhida Banzarov Dorji.

On Friday, June 11, 5 kilometers from the district center of the village of Peter and Paul [...]

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Huns - as a tourist attraction of Buryatia

The administrative territory of accession to the fort Hun capital of Buryatia will make us richer

Republic of Korea should intensify efforts to promote Buryatia as the cradle of civilization, the Hun. Otherwise, we surpass Mongolia and we will lose one of the most powerful means of attracting tourists. So say social activists and scholars studying the history of the tribe Huns inhabiting the territory of Buryatia two thousand years ago.

Of tourist infrastructure, the Hun [...]

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The exhibition at the Hermitage Dasha Namdakov

Namdakov in Hermitage
03/01/2010

February 26 at the State Hermitage Museum has opened a personal exhibition of the famous Buryat sculptor and artist Dashi Namdakov
The exhibition is called "Nostalgia for the basics. The universe of nomads Dashi Namdakov. " The exhibition includes both old and new works by this artist - sculptures, graphic works, decorative arts.
It is noteworthy that none of the previous Russian and Soviet artists are not represented his solo exhibition at [...]

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How to celebrate Sagaalgan (Sagalgan) correctly?

Note Sagaalgan right!
06/02/2010
For the past 20 years in Buryatia Sagaalgan celebrate after decades of officially banned in Soviet times. But until now, have received many questions about how to meet and celebrate this holiday. Today we will try to answer the most common questions.
Why every year on different dates Sagaalgan?
Ask a question, it is still [...]

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In Buryatia put Atlas of Tibetan Medicine

"Atlas of Tibetan medicine" will show only one month
Then he leaves again Buryatia


January 28 in History Museum of Buryatia, an exhibition of "Atlas of Tibetan Medicine." The last time "Atlas" exhibited twelve years ago. But despite this, the exhibition will last only a month.

The copy which we can now see at the Museum of Buryatia, were created at the end of the XIX century in Tibet [...]

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The new album, the singer Battuvshina

This album is pleasant to listen to, rolling down the road of Ulan-Ude, Ulan Bator. Music, in which lies the "Soul of a nomad." A solo album by that name was the next project, "one man band" Battuvshina.
Modern nomads bay horse prefer a powerful car, long degelam - comfortable feather bed. A route is through the urban jungle more than the endless steppes and deserts. However, nomadic spirit in their hearts [...]

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Buryat traditional ornaments

Jewelry - one of the universals, referring to the attributes of personal culture. Many people now can live without clothes, but none of them, who would not have jewelry.
Jewelry Buryats (both women and men) attached great importance. They served not only for their intended purpose - to decorate, but also endowed with a great [...]

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