Buddhist Temple Datsan Gunzechoinei
Morning and afternoon prayers are held daily for the well-being of the living and for the repose of the dead, as well as special prayers once a month. In addition, the community receives astrologers and a Tibetologist, and public lectures on Buddhist philosophy are constantly held at the request of believers.
Address:
St. Petersburg, Primorsky pr. 91 Metro: "Old Village", "Chernaya Rechka"
Telephone:
8 (812) 430-97-40: phone, inquiries (from 10:00 to 19:00, except Wednesdays), the phone may not be available to call
Brief history of the Buddhist temple.
A Buddhist temple was built in St. Petersburg (in Staraya Derevnya on the banks of the Bolshaya Nevka River) in 1909-1915. The initiator of the construction was the envoy of the XIII Dalai Lama, the scientist Buryat Lama Agvan Lobsan Dorzhiev (1853/54-1938). Simultaneously with the temple in 1910-1916. a 4-story dormitory for monks and visiting Buddhists and a service wing (not preserved) were erected. The architectural design of the temple was developed by a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers N.M. Berezovsky and architect G.V. Baranovsky (1909), who took as a model the Tibetan cathedral temple (“tsogchen-dugan”), which, however, was subjected to significant Europeanization in the spirit of Northern Art Nouveau. The construction was supervised by architects G.V. Baranovsky and R.A. Berzen (at the final stage), as well as a specially created committee, which included famous Russian orientalists and experts on Buddhism, academicians V.V. Radlov and S.F. Oldenburg, F.I. Shcherbatskaya, V.L. Kotvich, A.D. Rudnev, Prince. E.E. Ukhtomsky, artists N.K. Roerich and V.P. Schneider, as well as the author of the approved project G.V. Baranovsky. Funds for the construction were partly donated by Dorzhiev and the 13th Dalai Lama, and partly collected among believers in Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The temple was consecrated on August 10, 1915; upon consecration received the Tibetan name: Kun la brtse mdzad thub dbang mchhos 'byung ba'i gnas (Source of the Holy Teaching of the All-Compassionate Lord-Hermit). The main objects of worship were the Burkhan of the Big Buddha, made of clay by Buryat craftsmen, and two alabaster statues brought from Siam - the Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) and the Standing Buddha Maitreya, located in the lower and upper altars, respectively. During the Civil War (1919), the temple was subjected to pogrom and lost most of its relics and religious accessories.
In 1922-1937 The temple estate belonged to the Tibetan-Mongolian mission in the USSR, which was under the auspices of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. The head of the mission was the plenipotentiary representative of Tibet in the USSR Agvan Dorzhiev. In 1938 (after the arrest of the lamas and the liquidation of the mission), the temple building and two residential buildings attached to it were municipalized, and religious objects were transferred to the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism. In subsequent years (until the end of the 1980s), the temple housed a physical training base, a military radio station, and laboratories of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1987, the temple was visited by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, traditionally considered its Patron.
On July 9, 1990, by decision of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, the Temple was transferred to the Leningrad Buddhist Society. In 1991 it received its current name - Datsan Gunzechoiney, which is an abbreviation of its original name.
In 1994, a statue of the Big Buddha was installed in the main altar, made by Mongolian craftsmen in the traditional Mongolian style (from papier-mâché, followed by covering the figure of the religious teacher with gold leaf). The height of the Buddha’s body is 2 1/2 m, together with the halo and pedestal – about 5 m. In 2003, after restoration, the statue of the Siamese “Standing Buddha” was returned to the temple (donated in 1914 by the Russian consul in Bangkok G.A. Planson).
A.I.
Andreev St. scientific St. Petersburg employee. branch of the Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
At the St. Petersburg Buddhist Temple "Datsan Gunzechoiney" every Saturday, Anton Lama (Lobsan Tsultim) conducts a course of lectures on the basics of the Buddha's Teachings, based on Je Tsongkhapa's text "Lamrim Chenmo" - the Great Guide to the Stages of the Path of Awakening.
For all those interested and beginning to practice, there is a course of lectures and meditations: “Theory and Practice of Meditation.”
Anton Lama also conducts an excursion-lecture in the datsan "History. Symbols and attributes of Buddhism."
Every day, except Wednesday and Saturday, from 12.00-19.00 Anton Lama conducts an individual reception on personal issues, performs prayers-rituals for overcoming obstacles, opening the road, rituals for good luck, etc., and gives instructions.
Schedule of events on Saturdays:
“Theory and practice of meditation” - 12.00, venue: retreat hall (yellow one-story building next to the datsan).
Lecture "Basic Principles of the Buddha's Teaching" - 18.00, venue - hall on the ground floor in the datsan.
Excursion to the datsan "History. Symbols and attributes of Buddhism" - 17.00
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A Buddhist temple was built in St. Petersburg (in Staraya Derevnya on the banks of the Bolshaya Nevka River) in 1909-1915. The initiator of the construction was the envoy of the XIII Dalai Lama, the scientist Buryat Lama Agvan Lobsan Dorzhiev (1853/54-1938). Simultaneously with the temple in 1910-1916. a 4-story dormitory for monks and visiting Buddhists and a service wing (not preserved) were erected. The architectural design of the temple was developed by a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers N.M. Berezovsky and architect G.V. Baranovsky (1909), who took as a model the Tibetan cathedral temple (“tsogchen-dugan”), which, however, was subjected to significant Europeanization in the spirit of Northern Art Nouveau. The construction was supervised by architects G.V. Baranovsky and R.A. Berzen (at the final stage), as well as a specially created committee, which included famous Russian orientalists and experts on Buddhism, academicians V.V. Radlov and S.F. Oldenburg, F.I. Shcherbatskaya, V.L. Kotvich, A.D. Rudnev, Prince. E.E. Ukhtomsky, artists N.K. Roerich and V.P. Schneider, as well as the author of the approved project G.V. Baranovsky. Funds for the construction were partly donated by Dorzhiev and the 13th Dalai Lama, and partly collected among believers in Buryatia and Kalmykia.
The temple was consecrated on August 10, 1915; upon consecration received the Tibetan name: Kun la brtse mdzad thub dbang mchhos 'byung ba'i gnas (Source of the Holy Teaching of the All-Compassionate Lord-Hermit). The main objects of worship were the Burkhan of the Big Buddha, made of clay by Buryat craftsmen, and two alabaster statues brought from Siam - the Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) and the Standing Buddha Maitreya, located in the lower and upper altars, respectively. During the Civil War (1919), the temple was subjected to pogrom and lost most of its relics and religious accessories.
In 1922-1937 The temple estate belonged to the Tibetan-Mongolian mission in the USSR, which was under the auspices of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. The head of the mission was the plenipotentiary representative of Tibet in the USSR Agvan Dorzhiev. In 1938 (after the arrest of the lamas and the liquidation of the mission), the temple building and two residential buildings attached to it were municipalized, and religious objects were transferred to the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism. In subsequent years (until the end of the 1980s), the temple housed a physical training base, a military radio station, and laboratories of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1987, the temple was visited by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, traditionally considered its Patron.
On July 9, 1990, by decision of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, the Temple was transferred to the Leningrad Buddhist Society. In 1991 it received its current name - Datsan Gunzechoiney, which is an abbreviation of its original name.
In 1994, a statue of the Big Buddha was installed in the main altar, made by Mongolian craftsmen in the traditional Mongolian style (from papier-mâché, followed by covering the figure of the religious teacher with gold leaf). The height of the Buddha’s body is 2 1/2 m, together with the halo and pedestal – about 5 m. In 2003, after restoration, the statue of the Siamese “Standing Buddha” was returned to the temple (donated in 1914 by the Russian consul in Bangkok G.A. Planson).
A.I.
Andreev St. scientific St. Petersburg employee. branch of the Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
At the St. Petersburg Buddhist Temple "Datsan Gunzechoiney" every Saturday, Anton Lama (Lobsan Tsultim) conducts a course of lectures on the basics of the Buddha's Teachings, based on Je Tsongkhapa's text "Lamrim Chenmo" - the Great Guide to the Stages of the Path of Awakening.
For all those interested and beginning to practice, there is a course of lectures and meditations: “Theory and Practice of Meditation.”
Anton Lama also conducts an excursion-lecture in the datsan "History. Symbols and attributes of Buddhism."
Every day, except Wednesday and Saturday, from 12.00-19.00 Anton Lama conducts an individual reception on personal issues, performs prayers-rituals for overcoming obstacles, opening the road, rituals for good luck, etc., and gives instructions.
Schedule of events on Saturdays:
“Theory and practice of meditation” - 12.00, venue: retreat hall (yellow one-story building next to the datsan).
Lecture "Basic Principles of the Buddha's Teaching" - 18.00, venue - hall on the ground floor in the datsan.
Excursion to the datsan "History. Symbols and attributes of Buddhism" - 17.00
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Telephone:
8 (812) 430-97-40: phone, inquiries (from 10:00 to 19:00, except Wednesdays), the phone may not be available to call
Working hours:
Every day (except Wednesday) from 10-00 to 19-00, admission is free for everyone. Wednesday is a day off, only the lama on duty is accepted (check in advance by phone about the appointment)
Address:
St. Petersburg, Primorsky pr. 91 Metro: "Old Village", "Chernaya Rechka"
