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FIRST THREE PAGES OF ALTAN'S BACKSTORY

Buryatia, Ivolginsky Datsan Khambyn Sume

*Altan, Yuma, their mother and grandmother speak in Buryatian here, Russian translation is in square boxes and I took them as a base for English translation

Mother: ...now take three sips and pour the rest on your head.

Yuma: Hey, are you finished?

Mom: Not yet. Wouldn't it be a shame to leave without touching the wishing stone?

Altan: Wishing stone? I want to go to the wishing stone!

Yuma: What kind of stone, Mom?

Grandmother: And where did you get this boldness from?

Yuma: From you, grandma, who else?

Grandmother: Well, I guess you are right.

Mother: According to legend, Green Tara touched this stone and left her palm print on it. If a person touches it, asking for the fulfillment of his most cherished wishes, they will surely come true. You need to stand on this line, close your eyes and go straight towards it.

Altan: Will my wishes not come true now?

Believers gather around a ritual bonfire during the Dugzhuba, a Buddhist pre-New Year ritual of purification, near the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. During the Dugzhuba, ritual believers symbolically purify by eliminating all negative and harmful energies. This ritual takes place on the eve of the Buddhist New Year, called Sagaalgan by Russian Buddhists, and follows the lunar calendar. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

‘Everyone knew it was coming’A dispatch from Russia's Republic of Buryatia, where mobilization is already underway

12:11 pm, September 22, 2022

Source: People of the Baikal

Storyby People of the Baikal. Abridged translation by Sam Breazeale.

According to available data, the Republic of Buryatia has been losingsoldiers at a higher rate than almost any other region of Russia since the start of the war against Ukraine. An analysis from the independent outlet Mediazona suggests that’s no coincidence: Buryatia residents, roughly 30 percent of whom are ethnic Buryats, make well belowRussia’s median salary on average, which has been a reliable predictor that a given region will have high losses in this war. Vladimir Putin’s September 21 mobilization announcementlooks unlikely to reverse the pattern: conscription-eligible Buryatia regions began receiving draft orders that same day. A new report from local outlet People of the Baikal describeshow the men were picked up from their homes early the following morning and taken to the military commissariat’s assembly point in the regional capital, Ulan-Ude. With permission, Meduza is publishing a lightly abridged translation of the story.

On Shumyatsky Street (Editor’s note: in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia), an elderly woman in a woolen headscarf holds a plastic bag containing five cartons of Peter the Great cigarettes. She’s waiting for her son-in-law to be brought to the recruitment center. Last night, the 35-year-old was served a military summons in his home district of Barguzinsky, and he should be arriving in Ulan-Ude soon.

“I have three sons who are there already,” the woman says quietly. “Now they’re taking my son-in-law. They all want to fight. All of them. Men have something wrong with their heads.”

The woman’s phone rings and she answers. First she's calm, then she breaks into a shout: “Pasha, are you here? Yes, I brought the cigarettes. Tell everyone there that you have four kids, you hear me? Tell them all! Maybe they’ll release you.”

Buses of conscripts have been arriving in Ulan-Ude since the morning. The men are brought to the Military Commissariat of the Republic of Buryatia’s assembly point on Shumyatsky Street, a large, fenced-in territory directly adjacent to a tall apartment building. Just a 10-minute walk from here is the city’s archery hall, where memorial services for soldiers killed in Ukraine are held.

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The first conscripts to arrive are from the Tunkinsky district. According to a local government official, 130 people were picked upfrom the district, which has a population of about 20,700 residents. The entire Republic of Buryatia has about 980,000 people, and about 6 to 7 thousand of them are eligible for the draft.

According to a local government official who asked to remain anonymous, none of the people who have been conscripted so far have objected or complained. “Everyone knew mobilization was coming, and everyone was internally prepared for [the conscription authorities] to come for them,” he said.

It takes about 6–7 hours to reach Ulan-Ude from the Tunkinsky district. On the bus ride, the conscripts are given a lunch of buuz, a type of steamed dumpling popular in the region. “Each person ate 10 of them,” said one woman in a messaging group for soldiers' wives in the district. Members of the group have already begun collecting money for things like cigarettes and warm hats for the future soldiers. They’ve also discussed giving their husband bags of sacred sand from the Burkhan Baabai datsan, a Buddhist monastery in the district.

The Tunkinsky district residents arrive in two white Ford vans and two yellow school buses. When the vehicles stop in front of the gates of the assembly point, the conscripts — almost all in camouflage military uniforms — get out for a smoke break. Many of them are carrying bags packed by their wives or mothers.

People of the Baikal

“I’m 45 years old. I served a thousand years ago, and I wasn’t sent to a single hot zone,” says one heavyset, unshaven man. “But hey, I guess it’s my turn to do some shooting.” After the men finish their cigarettes and return to the buses, they’re driven through the gates to the assembly point. One of them shakes his fist and sings an upbeat song in a minor key as he waits for the others.

Ten minutes later, another batch of conscripts shows up, this time from the Yeravninsky district. Then buses arrive from the Zaigrayevsky, Kurumkansky, and Barguzinsky districts. Sergey, who hails from the Yeravninsky district, steps out of his bus with a bottle of cheap beer. He stands there for a moment in his plaid shirt and puffer vest, wobbling and smiling at a group of Kurumkansky residents. They stand in a circle, drinking vodka straight from the bottle. “Hey, come film me,” he says, waving his arm. “I think our country, or Buryatia, will crush old China — I mean, uh, Ukraine.”

Sergey is 49 years old. He served in the army once, but that was “a long time ago.” He has a wife and two daughters, the youngest of whom just entered the first grade. He says he’s not afraid of death. “Though I did tell my wife goodbye, and my daughters, too,” he adds, tears welling in his eyes. “But here we are: I’m headed to the front.”

All of the men being mobilized from Buryatia will be sent to either Chita, a city in Russia’s Zabaykalsky Krai, or Blagoveshchensk, in the Amur region, for training. From there, they’ll go to Ukraine.

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Blog Post #8, Illness

In recent history, Mongolia was politically aligned with the soviet bloc. This alignment saw Mongolian medical practices undergo some changes. Prior to the 20th century, Mongolia’s medical practices were largely holistic, often, Buddhist monks performed medical procedures using traditional remedies. A strong tradition of holistic medicine permeates Mongolian culture to this day. While western medicine has largely come into popularity in Mongolia, it is still combined with aspects of traditional healthcare, particularly in rural areas. In addition to this, continued study into traditional methods of treatment are present in Mongolia, namely, the Manba Datsan, a medical institution focused on the study of traditional Mongolian medicine. Mongolia is mostly comprised of rural, difficult to navigate areas, and the lack of access to major medical centers for a large portion of the population contributes to the maintenance of traditional medical practices as well as the popularization of scientific medicine. 

Mongolian beliefs around death are similar to wider Buddhist sentiments surrounding the subject. Many Mongolians, at least at the time of this research, separate themselves from material possessions around the time of death. This practice is similar to many Buddhist practices from surrounding nations. Due to soviet influence during the first half of the 20th century, many rites and rituals surrounding death were suppressed and replaced with more “modern” European procedures. Since the dissolution of the soviet bloc, traditional mortuary practices have made somewhat of a resurgence, although there is still a large portion of the population, especially those in cities, who continue to approach death from a western perspective. A common funerary rite in Mongolian culture is that of open burial, in which the body of the deceased is not embalmed or entombed, but instead is left in the elements to be decomposed. This ritual, despite initial impressions, is not a flippant act, but instead a respectful display of Mongolian religion, as can be seen in the myriad of steps that must be taken to ensure a proper passage for the deceased. The beliefs and practices surrounding death in a culture can be a difficult subject to approach in intercultural communication. Death can be uncomfortable to think about and even more uncomfortable to examine as a cultural practice, but an understanding of how death functions in a society is necessary for one to understand and remain respectful within a culture. 

Overwhelmingly, environmental factors inhibit the progress of healthcare in Mongolia. The problem that Mongolians are facing today is the limited physical access to healthcare in their country, and any person seeking to assist Mongolian citizens medically must understand the limitations of technology in terms of providing adequate care to people in rural areas. Simply put, Mongolia is too large and the environment is too extreme for a modern healthcare system to be easily set up. Progress is being made towards making medicine convenient for all Mongolians, but at this point there is still much work to be done. Additionally, American people may have trouble understanding or memorizing Mongolian holistic remedies, which are vital to current medical technology in the country. Advice I have for Americans seeking to provide medical assistance in Mongolia is this: 1. Understand that the main problem facing Mongolian healthcare is the geography of the nation. 2. Familiarize yourself with holistic treatments from Mongolian traditional medicine.

"En termes politiques et sociaux, notre civilisation peut être définie comme une unité de prêtrise, de tsaricité et de zemstvo. Le sacerdoce, c'est la Sainte Russie, l'ensemble des gens saints, des moines, des monastères, des prophètes, des voyants, des soufis, des chamans, des temples orthodoxes, des mosquées, des datsans, des lieux de pouvoir - tout ce qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, relie notre civilisation au monde subtil. L'idée de la Russie sacrée est à la base orthodoxe, mais pas seulement : en s'étendant, on peut dire qu'elle réunit tout ce qui est sacré et qui passe dans notre flux général, qui s'y fond."

Alexey Dzermant, Geopolitika.ru (2023)

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Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan ( Ulan-Ude / Russia )

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Aginsky datsan is a Buddhist monastery complex (datsan), which is the largest Buddhist community in the Transbaikal Territory. Datsan was build in 1811.

Агинский дацан -буддийский монастырский комплекс (дацан), являющийся наиболее крупной буддийской общиной Забайкальского края.Дацан основан в 1811 году.

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Дацан Ринпоче Багша на Лысой горе — одно из самых интересных мест Улан-Удэ. Это благодатное место, очень красивое и умиротворенное. С горы, на которой расположен Дацан, открывается прекрасный вид на город в любое время года. Однажды побывав здесь, хочется вернуться вновь! Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan on Lysaya Gora is one of the most interesting places in Ulan-Ude. It is very beautiful and peaceful place. #ДацанРинпочеБагша #дацан #буддизм #УланУдэ #Бурятия #ЛысаяГора #красиво #благодать #Россия #datsan #Buryatia #Russia #UlanUde #beautiful #peaceful (at Дацан Ринпоче Багша) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRY4bZapvBE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Datsan Gunzechoinei is a large Buddhist temple in Saint Petersburg. It is the northernmost Buddhist temple in Russia. In 1909, Agvan Dorzhiev got permission from the Tsar to build a large and substantial Buddhist datsan or temple in Saint Petersburg. However, the Russian Orthodox Church campaigned strongly against this "pagan" temple across the country, which considerably delayed its construction. The Datsan was completed only by 1915.