1. ECA “Buddhist church of Russia: Buryatia and Trans-Baikal region”

2. Resourse base of the project
This project will be done on the basis of the materials gathered during the work on the book “The land of Vajrapani: Buddhism in TransBaikal region” (Moscow, 2008, 600 p., more than 130 articles). We have accumulated quite a large stock of text materials and illustrations.
This book is the first one that embraces all aspects of the history of Buryat Buddhism in the course of its 3 century's period of existence within Russian state.

4. Objects Buddhist teaching Buddhist monasteries Buddhist art
Prominent Buddhist figures of Russia

5. The subject of the project
Visual reconstruction of the history of Buryat Buddhism and recording (documenting) the current situation of Buddhist monasteries and their activities

6. Creating an informational online
Aims and tasks
Creating an informational online
resource
1.Creating a digital map of religious objects. Problems.
2. Creating a visual documental content and connecting it with the objects of the digital map

7. Authors, compilers and the dates
Centre of oriental manuscripts and xylographs of the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, Russian academy of sciences (Ulan-Ude)
The Chair of theory and history of culture of the Baikal State pedagogical university (Chita)
Buryat Buddhist institute (Aginsk)
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8. Buddhist teaching Buddhist sciences and knowledge Buddhist literature
Buddhist education
Buddhist ceremonies, rituals and cults
Buddhist symbols

9. Buddhist monasteries History Geographic location Architecture
Personalia
Present condition

10. Buddhist figures and believers
Church hierarchs
Prominent teachers and monks
Famous icon- painters and sculptors

11. Buddhist art
Painting
Sculture
Music
Decorative elements, etc.

12. Main technology used Google Maps applied programming
TimeMap extension for Google Maps to show data along time scale
Cross relations with all our other project data