DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2023-1-131-136
THE CONTRIBUTION OF GESHE JAMPA TINLEY TO THEREVIVAL OF BUDDHISM IN TUVA (1993–2023)
Adygbay Chechek Ondarovna – Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, independent researcher (Kyzyl, Russia).
E-mail: adygbay@yandex.ru.
The article is devoted to the contribution of the Venerable Geshe Jampa Tinley, Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy, Honorary Professor of Tuvan State University to the revival of Buddhism in Tuva. The beginning of Geshe’s activities in Russia can be traced in a historical retrospective, when His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, after arriving in Tuva in 1992, sent his disciple, a heart student, to Russia. The author considers some facts of the biography of Geshe Tinley, the essence of his tireless effort. The main awards received by the monk as a documentary fact of his spiritual and socio-cultural activities and as gratitude from the Tuvan people are represented in the given article.
