Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume

The Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume ("The Golden Abode of the Buddha Sakyamuni", Oirat: Бурхн Багшин алтн сүм, romanized: Burxn Bagşin altn süm, [burxən bɑkʃin ɑltən symə]) is a Gelug Buddhist monastery in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation.[1][2] The temple contains the largest Buddha statue in Europe (63 m).

Burqan Bakşïn Altın Sümi
Бурхн Багшин алтн сүм
Golden Temple in Elista
Monastery information
OrderGelug
DenominationBuddhism
Established2005
Site
LocationElista, Republic of Kalmykia
CountryRussia
Coordinates46°18′35″N 44°17′2″E
The temple complex

It was opened on December 27, 2005 at the site of a former factory.[3] More than 5,000 people attended the opening ceremony, including representatives of Tibetan Buddhist communities from Moscow, Volgograd and Saratov.

The 14th Dalai Lama blessed the site of the future temple just before he left Elista during his November 2004 visit to the Republic and gave it its name on March 11, 2006.

During the opening ceremony, the Republic of Kalmykia President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov dedicated the temple to Kalmyks who died during and after their sudden and forced exile to Siberia. The date corresponded with Zul, the Kalmyk New Year, and the anniversary of the 1943 deportations (December 27, 1943).[4]

References
  1. Baumer, Christoph (2018-04-18). History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 95–98. ISBN 978-1-83860-867-5.
  2. Lidzhieva, Irina V.; Nemgirova, Sofia N. (2014-10-02). "The Ethnocultural Development of a Region". Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia. 53 (4): 71–84. doi:10.1080/10611959.2014.1081540. ISSN 1061-1959. S2CID 147251209.
  3. SINCLAIR, TARA (2008). "Tibetan Reform and the Kalmyk Revival of Buddhism". Inner Asia. 10 (2): 241–259. doi:10.1163/000000008793066713. ISSN 1464-8172. JSTOR 23615096.
  4. admin (2019-01-10). "La Calmucchia verso l'autonomia: tra buddisti, scacchisti ed extraterrestri". the Submarine (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-14.
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