ULAN-UDE

SIGHTS OF INTEREST, MUSEUMS AND DATSANS OF ULAN-UDE SUBURBS

Atsagat Datsan
 

Atsagat Datsan is famous by the fact that a prominent figure in Buddhism, a spiritual Teacher of Dalai-Lama, Agvan Dorzhiyev worked in this temple. Czarevitch Nicholas II visited Atsagat datsan. 

Today there is a wax museum in Atsagan village. The figures are the only in Siberia, they are of Dalai-Lama XIII, Dalai- Lama XIV. It’s a typical Buryat village. Local people can tell you about national traditions and customs of Guchid tribe, the aborigines of Atsagan Valley. Veneration of the ghosts of that territory, respect to the elderly people, ability to live in harmony with nature, - this everything is typical of them. 

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