His body has been lying in a specially built palace in the Ivolginsky datsan since late 2008. Western media reluctant to acknowledge imminent nuclear threat to whole world — diplomat.

Some 90 km from Ivolginsky Datsan is Atsagat Datsan. Built in 1825, it is one of the oldest datsans in Russia and many Buddhist spiritual leaders came from here.

Ivolginsky Datsan (Buryatia) Legion Media Located 38.5 km from the city of Ulan Ude in Buryatia, Ivolginsky Datsan is considered the center of Russian Buddhism, home to the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Ivolginsky Datsan Buddhist center in Buryatia, in southern Siberia. He met with leader of the Sangha association of Russian Buddhists Damba Ayusheyev ...

One-hundred-and-two Buryat horsemen entered their names into the history of the Olympic Movement by covering a total distance of 29.8 km through Ulan-Ude, including the Ivolginsky datsan, the ...

ULAN-UDE, April 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Buddhist Traditional Sangha (church) is grateful to the Russian state and personally to President Vladimir Putin for support to the Buddhist confession in ...