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Geshe Wangyal. With Blessing of the Three Jewels ~ trailer
film by Ella Manzheeva

"In 1923, as a young man, he left his home & spent over 30 years in Tibet & India, reaching the 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 ..."

youtu.be/Xg9MY07Oxuk

#documentary #buddhist #kalmyk #geshewangyal #ngawangwangyal #tibetanresistance

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ATJ · @atriverside
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From with Love, The untold story of how Tibetan Buddhism first came to , David Urubshurow, Tricycle, 2013.

" from and unlikely beneficiaries of America’s early maneuverings, the Kalmyks transformed an unassuming town in the middle of into the epicenter for in the West."

🙏 tricycle.org/magazine/geshe-ng

#russia #america #refugees #stalinism #coldwar #newjersey #TibetanBuddhism #geshe #ngawangwangyal #kalmyk #tibetanresistance

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ATJ · @atriverside
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Jangar, The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads, trans. by Saglar Bougdaeva, forthcoming in January 2023.

"... When the first translation, into , finally appeared, had the entire population deported to & ordered that their national literature be eliminated from the published world"

🙏 Cover & excerpt of this landmark English translation of , courtesy University of California Press:
ucpress.edu/book/9780520344723

#russian #stalin #kalmyk #siberia #eurasiansteppe #nomads #mongols #oralliterature #jangar

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