Buddizm i nat︠s︡ionalizm vo Vnutrenneĭ Azii
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The book studies Buddhism in Inner Asia in the context of the challenges of the modernity era and one of its main ideas - nationalism. It shows various scenarios and forms of interaction between Buddhist religion and politics, religious institutions and state power, determines the role of the tradition of Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism in the national building of the Republic of Mongolia and the Buddhist regions of Russia and China - Buryatia and Tibet.