DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2023-1-69-79
MECHANISMS OF INCORPORATION OF BUDDHISM INTO TRADITIONAL BELIEFS OF THE BURYATS: BUDDHIST CLERGY ACTIVITY AND ASSIMILIATION OF SOME CULTS
Batomunkueva Soelma Rinchinovna – Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science, Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia).
E-mail: soelmul@mail.ru.
The article discusses the features and some aspects of the assimilation of pre-Buddhist beliefs by Buddhist clergy. Coming Buddhism to the Buryat lands marked changes in religious views connected with the spread and introduction of Buddhist rites and customs into their traditional beliefs. One of the firsts assimilated by Buddhism is the cult of the land-owners and the ancestors cult as the most importance in the creation of not only the religious picture of the world, but also in many processes of socio-cultural space of the Buryats as a whole.
