DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2023-2-36-45
THE TRADITION OF WORSHIPING AVALOKITESHVARA IN BURYAT DATSANS
Zhamsueva Darima Sanzhievna – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology SB RAS (Ulan-Ude, Russia).
E-mail: darisan@rambler.ru.
The article examines the cult of one of the most revered deities of the Buddhist pantheon – Avalokiteshvara (Bur. Arya-Balo). Based on archival sources, the history of its functioning in the living Buryat tradition is traced, the features of the religious cult of Avalokiteshvara and the ritual of his veneration in individual Buryat monasteries (Aginsky, Tsongolsky datsans) are characterized.
