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Narthang Bulletin №2 (1992)

(monthly)

August

N 2 1992

St. Petersburg

NB is a monthly informational review of Buddhism on the territory of the former USSR published by the Russian branch of the Narthang Publications, belonging to the Office of International Relation of the Dalai Lama.

Any communications (up to 100 words) of Buddhist groups and organizations subscribed to the bulletin are published by NB free of payment. The same applies to information on new publications on Buddhism sent to the bulletin. Full responsibility for the accuracy of information rests with its authors.

Buddhist groups of all denominations are welcome to inform about themselves, their achievements and problems.

Subscription applications for 1993 are accepted.

Editor-in-chief Dr. A. A. Terentyev, managing editor Dr. A. A. Diuranov. Address: Dr. A. A. Diuranov, P. O. Box 627, St-Petersburg, Russia, 190000; Tel: (812)-312-04-71, Fax: (812)-272-79-68 (A. A. Terentyev. ) (c) Narthang publications. Price $ 2 for over sea subscribers includes air mail.

I.

1. H. H. the Dalai Lama has visited Moscow on August 16-22 to take part in the international conference "Facing Apocalypse III. The Charisma of Power and Holy War". Two Piece Nobel Prize winners - H. H. the Dalai Lama & former USSR President Michail Gorbachev - met for the first at this conference.

The participants of the conference took active part in discussion of the Mickey Lemke's movie "Compassion in Exile. The story of the 14th Dalai Lama" and expressed their deep consern towards Chinese occupied Tibetan people.

2. Next visit of H. H. is planned for September 13-26 of this year. The Dalai Lama was invited to visit the traditional Buddhist Republics of Russian Federation: Kalmyk, Tuva and Buryat. He will be accompanied by Kalon Kalsang Yeshi, personal physician and others.

The schedule of H. H. 's visit: 13-18 Sept. - Elista; 18-21 Sept. - Ulan-Ude, 23-25 Sept. - Aginskoye, on 25 Sept. H. H. will come back to Moscow. The possibility of public talk in Moscow is being considered. Questions on the schedule could be addressed to Representative of H. H. in Moscow Dr. Nawang Rabgyal: tel. (095) 234-61-43.

II. Buddhism in Russian Federation.

We have started already to introduce Buddhist Communities on the former USSR territory. Now for better understanding of their individual plane and role we suggest a general overview of our Buddhist organizations.

1. The largest and most influential is the Central Buddhist Board of Russia (the former CBB of the USSR) which claims to be a successor of the Central Spiritual Buddhist Council created in 1922 and destroyed by Communists in the 1930-th. CBB was started in 1946 when it was allowed to open anew two Buddhist temples among Buryats.

The Chairman of CBB bears the title of Bandido Hambo Lama (i. e. "Pandita" - Sanskrit: "Learned"; "khenpo" - Tib: "head"; Lama - Tib: Teacher).

Presently CBB controls the activities of all the "datsans" among Buryat Republic and Aginsky Buryat Autonomous District of Chita area of Russian Federation. Also one of 5 Moscow Buddhist Communities "The Moscow Community of Buddhist" is subordinated to CBB.