Abstract

The article examines Manichaean motives in the Central Asian region that took place in the Mongolian world. The paper analyses complex, rather complicated and difficult to catch religious symbols of early Christian penetrations into the Mongolosphere. The religious content of the canons of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, whose ideas and practices can be traced in the structure of Manichaeism, also took place among various Turkic and Mongolian ethnic groups and their conglomerations, starting from the 8th – 10th centuries, including also the 13th century.

Highlights

  • The article deals with the peculiarities of the architecture of the Buryat Buddhist datsans of ethnic Buryatia

  • The stylistic features of the cult architecture of Buryat monasteries are revealed in comparison with the samples of Buddhist architecture in Mongolia and Tibet

  • The author concludes that architectural ensembles of temples in Buryatia combine individual forms, elements of Russian church cult architecture and local traditions, schools and works of individual masters and concludes that Buddhist temple construction reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century

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(Hist.), Associate Professor; Senior Researcher of the Department of Philosophy, Culture Studies and Religion Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (6 Sakhyanovoj St, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia, 670047; darisan@rambler.ru) В статье рассматриваются манихейские мотивы в регионе Центральной Азии, имевшие место в монгольском мире. Манихейство имело достаточно широкую популярность и влияние на многочисленные религиозно-философские концепции и религиозные движения средневековой Европы и Азии.

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