тибетский буддизм versus бурятский буддизм?
Tibetský buddhismus v Burjatsku. By Luboš Bělka. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Česká Republika, 2001. 347 pages.
занятная рецензия - жаль, не сама книга.
Bělka's work is based on solid research carried out in 1993, 1994 and 2000, during which he lived in various monasteries, interviewed monks as well as Russian state officials, and studied pertinent manuscripts in situ as well as in the archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow. His command of the languages went a long way toward enabling him to pursue his research project in the field. Proceeding from the results of his fieldwork and his research in the archives, the author proposes a new six-stage periodization of the evolution of Buddhism in Buryatia, organizing his book accordingly.
Bělka's first stage is the penetration of Buddhism from Tibet and Mongolia into the regions east of Lake Baikal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Describing the second stage, the author explains how the Tsarist Government recognized the Buryat form of Buddhism as the national religion of the entire region in the middle of the eighteenth century. As his third stage, Bělka sees the evolution of an indigenous ecclesiastical structure, the Buryat National Buddhist Church, still under the patronage and administrative control of Russian officials. He then gives a very detailed account of the network of monasteries set up in the regions west and east of Lake Baikal, during the period of 1850 to 1920. His fourth stage is the liquidation of the Buddhist National Church in Buryatia by Leninist policies promoting atheism during the Soviet period after 1920. Because Buryat Buddhism proved resilient, Bělka explains a fifth stage: Soviet authorities' concessions, which resulted in the first period of Buddhist restoration from the late 1930s to 1980. The sixth stage accounts for the second period of restoration of Buddhism in Buryatia, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Bělka ends his study with a description of the renaissance of Buddhism in Buryatia today. However, for this reviewer, the most interesting part of the book is Bělka's discussion of the modus operandi of the diffusion of Buddhism into Buryatia.