Mongolia

Long before translators began to render Tibetan Buddhist texts into Western languages, the Mongols had successfully undertaken this task.

Buddhism flourished along the Silk Route in East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang in the People’s Republic of China) from the 1st century BCE until the 14th century CE and is present even today among the Kalmyk Mongols in the north of the province.

Tibetan language and culture spread and interacted with many other civilizations. The Tibetan traditions have evolved over the centuries, and this process of evolution and growth must continue.

Interview with Dr. Berzin, following his 1990 visit to the Mongolian People’s Republic, for “Buddhists for Peace”: “Lessons To Be Learned from the Adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia.”

As of 1995, there were no books on Buddhism in the colloquial Mongolian language, hardly anyone who could make such translations and no money to print such books, even if they were made. Thus, young people and intellectuals were being drawn to Christianity, which they now...

A report on the history and the situation of the Buddhist monasteries in 1994 in Inner Mongolia and among the Mongols of Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang.

Kalmykia faces a very special challenge because Buddhist culture was repressed for many years and now is experiencing the pressures of globalization.