Ivolginsky Datsan

Coordinates: 51°45′30″N 107°12′12″E / 51.75833°N 107.20333°E / 51.75833; 107.20333
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Tsogchen-dugan. The main cathedral temple of the Ivolginsky datsan
Ivolga Monastery - Etigel Khambin Temple.
The main gate of the Ivolginsky datsan. Inside view
Residential houses of priests of the datsan

Ivolginsky Datsan (

Ulan Ude, near Verkhnyaya Ivolga
village.

The spiritual activity of the datsan is manifested in temple rites, medical practice, and a traditional system of Buddhist education.

History

The

USSR
. Its name changed from "Khambin's sume" into the Monastic centre.

It was the residence of the

Sangha of Russia
, as well as that of Pandido Khambo lama, the head of the Russian Buddhists. The Buddhist university «Dashi Choinkhorling» was opened in 1991 attached to the datsan.

Culture

Although built in the late 1940s with light-colored brick, the [main] temple displays traditional proportions and ornamentation. The first level is devoted to study and prayer. The second level preserves sacred texts. The third level, the gonkan, serves as an inner sanctum devoted to the guardian deities. The gonkan is surrounded by an open gallery to allow ceremonial processions around the sacred space.[1]

Unique samples of Buryat art, as

Bodhi tree
.

As a cultural and religious monument, the datsan is protected by the State. The Datsan Centre consists of such temples as Sockshin-dugan, Maidrin-sume, Devazhin and Sakhiusan-sume. A library, hotel, the Choyra (Faculty of Philosophy), Dashi Choinhorlin (building of the Buddhist University), Museum of Buryat Art, suburgans (

stupas
), are available.

Within the complex is the Korean style wooden Etigel Khambin temple that honors the 12th Khambo Lama whose body was recently exhumed.[2]

Itigelov

Main article:
Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov

In 1927, the 12th Pandito Hambo Lama of the

Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, told his students and fellow monks to bury his body after his death and to check on it in 30 years. According to the story, Itigelov then sat in the lotus position, began chanting the prayer of death, and died, mid-meditation. The monks followed Itigilov's directions, and when they exhumed his body 30 years later, they were amazed to find no sign of decay and decomposition. Fearful of the Soviet response to the "religious miracle", the monks reburied Itigilov's body in an unmarked grave; packing the wooden coffin with salt.[3]

Itigelov's story was not forgotten; a young lama named Bimba Dorzhiyez Buddhist whose father-in-law had witnessed the original exhumation. On September 11, 2002, the body was again exhumed, a process witnessed by twelve people, including two forensic scientists and a photographer. The official statement was issued about the body stated that it was well preserved, without major signs of decay.

See also

One of the dugans of the Ivolginsky Datsan. July 2021
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References

  1. ^ "Ivolginsk Buddhist Datsan, with Main Temple (1940s), Ivolga, Russia". World Digital Library. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  2. ISBN 978-1-74104-135-4
    .
  3. ^ "Lama Itigilov, Ivolgin Datsan, Buryatiya, Russia". 17 November 2017.

External links

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