Religious tours

Buryatia is the unique place in the world where three religions coexist peacefully: Shamanism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Shamanism is the oldest religion among the Siberian peoples and worships the Earth and the Eternal Blue Sky. Much later, in the 17^th century, Buddhism reached Buryatia in the form of  the Gelugpa school—also known as Lamaism—and Christianity came here with the arrival of the Russian Cossacks;  Buddhism was officially recognized in Russia in 1741.

Visit the sacred places of our Buryat religions:

Obo—shamanistic places  in the open air with rock paintings dating from the Bronze Ages

Tamchinsky and Ivolginsky datsans—Buddhist monasteries

Atsagat village—the last home of Agvan Dorzhiev , the Buddhist reformatory and teacher of the XIII
Dalai-Lama

The station of English missionaries in Novoselenginsk, and the village of Russian Old-believers: Tarbagatay, Desyatnikovo, Bolshoy Kunaley, …