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Year of fire boar
Russian Buddhists celebrate the New Year on the Lunar Calendar New Year - the year of the fire boar on the eastern calendar is met by residents of Buryatia. At the same time, Sagaalgan begins - the holiday of the White month - one of the favorite holidays of the Buryats and other Mongolian -speaking peoples. New Year - the year of fire boar on the eastern calendar is met by residents of Buryatia. At the same time, Sagaalgan begins - the holiday of the White month - one of the favorite holidays of the Buryats and other Mongolian -speaking peoples, ITAR -TASS reports. It has been celebrated from the XII century on the eve of spring on the orders of the grandson of Genghis Khan Khubilai Khan. The holiday marks the end of the harsh in the Central Asia of Winter, always difficult for livestock breeders. It most often coincides in time with Russian Shrovetide. The holiday of the White month, which was considered a religious relic in the USSR, was "rehabilitated" in 1991. He was given the state status in Buryatia.
During the upcoming month, the doors of each house in Buryatia are open to the guests to whom the owners present gifts. The main dishes of the festive table are milk ("white") food and meat in a variety of versions. But the buses are binding - large dumplings, steamed.
In Ulan-Ude, festivities with theatrical performances are held. The new secular traditions of the holiday include sports, festivals of pop songs. The lights and the main Christmas tree in the capital of the republic will be lit again. The forest beauty and an ice town here, as a rule, are not removed before the onset of the eastern New Year. This tradition has recently originated and very symbolic for Transbaikalia, where the customs of the East and West are very closely intertwined.
The head of the Buddhist traditional Sangha (Church) of Russia Pandito Hambo-lam Dam Ayusheev in New Year's congratulation wished the Buddhists and all the inhabitants of Russia health and well-being in the coming year of the fiery wild boar. The first 15 days of the New Year in the Buddhist churches of Russia, Lama-Vynnikhovniki will read prayers.
The Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia - the largest Buddhist community - includes more than 30 Buddhist monasteries from St. Petersburg to Chita. They are about a thousand lamas-servants. They profess the traditions of the Tibetan school, which belongs to the Buddhism of Mahayana ("Big Chariot"), which puts at the head of the teaching activity for the good of all living things. According to various estimates, up to 2 million Russians are adherents of Buddhism.
