Buddhist Temple in St-petersburg

[Russkidancer]

Bless buddhism in Russia. Christianity is evil and outdated lifestyle for modern times. Buddhism is full of WISDOM.

[nikolaidonskoj]

The introductory information is not completely correct. There were Buddhist temples in Kalmykia since 1608. Since Kalmykia is in Europe there have been temples in Europe before this one. The St. Petersburg temple was built between 1907 & 1915 and is considered to be first in Northern Europe.

[LordLebu]

The exotic tribes in east Russia are quite fascinating , they hold the key of understanding the very ancient cultures .

[shefali13]

are there native, slavic russians who're buddhist by religion? I mean white(caucasian) russians, NOT mongolian(chinese) looking russians.

[valentinefilms]

they are Buriats, i.e. Mongol tribes on the border with Mongolia incorporated into Russian empire since 18th century. So, despite they are not Slavic neither Causcasians, they are Russian and buddhists.

[shefali13]

Yes i know these people are, but are there not even a few white caucasian russians who converted to buddhism? i heard that some did, after the fall of the USSR and when the dalai lama came to st petersburg. no? not even one?

[LeHuyAnh]

Well yeah Shefali, some ethnic Russians and other non-Asiatic people have taken great interest in it. Places like Moscow and Krasnoyarsk are full of non-Asian Buddhists.

[nikolaidonskoj]

There have been Slavic Russian converts to Buddhism since the 19th century. There was a brief period in the 1960's where a small non-minority sangha formed in Leningrad. But, it is only after 1990 that real growth of Slavic converts to Buddhism began.

[eternaltruthtv]

@valentinefilms Buriats are not Russian at all. Some may speak Russian but that is due to Russian imperialism.

[longman718]

Yes of course there are. I saw in the videos normal white Russians joining the Buddhist monastries in Kalymykia

[vajraman108]

Great video. Did you take good stills of the stained glass windows on the second floor? Nicholas Roerich designed them. He later did many paintings and writings on Shambhala. -- Glenn Mullin (On YouTube, Vajraman108)

[CoBaQue]

Chùa theo kiểu Nga đẹp.

[chinkstah9683]

hi, ummmwho were the pcis of ppls in the temple? and wut did it say under it? im guessing the slaughtered monks?

[valentinefilms]

no dude, those were actually the current monks who live there with their names and titles, most of them "lama-astrologer".

[chinkstah9683]

lol ,mi bad sry.. iwas juss thinkinj.. btw im not a dude ima girl

[Zaaazaa]

i was there in march 2007 its very nice and simple place

[DIEG0G0D0Y]

beautiful place...

[valentinefilms]

you're right dude, i've mixed with soviet revolution, thanx for the correction!!!

[comradrami88]

World War One began in 1914 by the way, not 1917

[meandtheDoctor]

very cool