Tamchinsky datsan

The Tamchinsky datsan (Buryat: Тамчын дасан, Tamchyn Dasan), also called the Tamchinskii datsan or Gusinoozyorsk Datsan, is a Buddhist monastery founded in the mid-18th century in the village of Gusinoye Ozero, located on the south-western shore of Lake Gusinoye, Buryat Republic, Russia.

Tamchinsky datsan in the 1890s

In 1809, the monastery became "the center of Buddhism in eastern Siberia".[1]

Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov received his medical training here.[2]

The temple, which was ransacked in the 1930s, was being restored as of 2013 "as part of the revival of the Buddhist cultural and spiritual legacy in Buriatiia."[1]

Gusinoozersk datsan around 1920

Ceremonies at the temple were filmed in the Pudovkin's fictional drama Storm Over Asia (1928 film).

References
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  1. "Gusinoe Ozero (Town), Datsan, Main Temple (1858-70), West Facade, Gusinoe Ozero, Russia". World Digital Library. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  2. "Letters Home: Naj Wikoff in Ulan Ude, Russia". North Country Public Radio, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. 2005. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
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