From royal favorites to outcasts: The shifting fates of Russian Buddhists
by Gleb Fedorov, RBTH, Aug 30, 2014
Kalmykia, Russia -- The history of the followers of
Buddha in Russia is a tumultuous one. Buddhists extolled the Russian
tsars and presidents, served as doctors in the royal court and endured
repression and the destruction of their culture under the communists.
Many Buddhists landed in camps and mandatory therapy, and they continued
to be persecuted until the 1980s.
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