Okna Tsahan Zam - Eejin Duun (Kalmyk Folk Song) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rPtuCvbUtw
#Music #Folk #Kalmyk #Russia #ThroatSinging #OvertoneSinging
#music #folk #kalmyk #russia #throatsinging #overtonesinging
Geshe Wangyal. With Blessing of the Three Jewels ~ trailer
#Documentary film by Ella Manzheeva
"In 1923, as a young man, he left his home & spent over 30 years in Tibet & India, reaching the #Buddhist scholarly degree of “Geshe.” He was a friend of the Dalai Lama & taught at Columbia University. He devoted his life to putting the teachings of Buddha into practice & trained a host of talented students ..."
#documentary #buddhist #kalmyk #geshewangyal #ngawangwangyal #tibetanresistance
From #Russia with Love, The untold story of how Tibetan Buddhism first came to #America, David Urubshurow, Tricycle, 2013.
"#Refugees from #Stalinism and unlikely beneficiaries of America’s early #ColdWar maneuverings, the Kalmyks transformed an unassuming town in the middle of #NewJersey into the epicenter for #TibetanBuddhism in the West."
#russia #america #refugees #stalinism #coldwar #newjersey #TibetanBuddhism #geshe #ngawangwangyal #kalmyk #tibetanresistance
Jangar, The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads, trans. by Saglar Bougdaeva, forthcoming in January 2023.
"... When the first translation, into #Russian, finally appeared, #Stalin had the entire #Kalmyk population deported to #Siberia & ordered that their national literature be eliminated from the published world"
#EurasianSteppe #Nomads #Mongols #OralLiterature
🙏 Cover & excerpt of this landmark English translation of #Jangar, courtesy University of California Press:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344723/jangar
#russian #stalin #kalmyk #siberia #eurasiansteppe #nomads #mongols #oralliterature #jangar