Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 13: Nawang Tsering Shakspo, a noted historian and scholar, will represent the Buddhists of Ladakh in the four-day long international conference being organized on Buddhist civilization in Russian Federation.
The conference on Buddhist civilization and Spiritual Heritage of the People of Eurasia: Oral and Written tradition in a historical and cultural context will begin tomorrow i.e. from November 14 and last till November 18 in Elista, Khurul of the Republic of Kalmykia in Russian Federation.
Nawang Tsering Shakspo will present a well researched paper on, “Buddhism in the context of globalization” on the 1st day of the conference. Scholars from leading academic centers and universities of Russia, China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Iran, Germany, Hungary etc as well as from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, etc will be attending the conference, which is going to be an amalgamation of the scholars of the countries falling within the geography of Central Asia, where once Buddha Dharma flourished and Buddhist arts and craft are still visible.
Buddhism in Russia has almost 300 hundred years of history and unlike any European countries, in Russian Federation three Republic such as Buryatia, Tuvinion and Kalmykia have overwhelming followers of traditional Mahayana Buddhism. The tradition moved into the Russian territory via Baikal Laka, more than 300 hundred years before.
The conference will mark the 500 years of birth of the great Buddhist saint Tsong-khapa, the founder of Gelukpa sect and Zaya-Pandita, the Buddhist monk, whose name is associated with the glorious pages of the history of the Buddhism in Mongolia and Russia.
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