Buddyjscy lamowie w nieoficjalnym życiu społeczności lokalnych Zabajkala – perspektywa antropologiczna

After Joseph Stalin’s death only about 600 repressed Buryat lamas was able to return to their family villages. Some of them secretly continued their ritual and medical activities. They were called various names: starik, diedushka, akhay. According to the holistic perception of reality in Tibetan Buddhism, it is im-possible to separate the sphere of belief, cosmology, from prosperity, health, norms and values, social structure, hierarchy, power, and identity, etc. In this case, the identity would be created by a specific system of practices and procedures of behaviour consistent with the symbolic and social order, embedded the cosmogonic order that originally related to it. The unofficial role of the lamas was to maintain the traditional foundations of the social order and its relationship with the wider cosmogonic foundations.