The Diplomat

Could Russia’s Buddhist Republics Complicate Relations With China?

The Russian Federation is an authentically multiconfessional society, as opposed to the West’s imported multiculturalism and militant secularism – or so goes the story promoted by the Russian state ...
TASS

Buddhist leader says impossible to justify actions of athlete who desecrated Buddha statue

ULAN UDE, April 5. /TASS/. Head of Russia’s traditional Sangha XXIV Pandito Khambo Lamba Damba Ayusgev said on Tuesday it is impossible to justify the actions of Dagestani athlete Said Osmanov who ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Buddhist Leader Becomes First Religious Head In Russia To Openly Condemn War In Ukraine

The Supreme Lama of Russia's Republic of Kalmykia has become the first religious leader in the Russian Federation to condemn Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion in Ukraine. Telo Tulku Rinpoche, also ...
Island

Sri Lanka participates at III Int’ll Buddhist Forum in Kalmykia, Russia

Sri Lanka made a significant contribution to the recent III International Buddhist Forum, held in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russian Federation, with co-sponsorship from Moscow State University (MSU) ...