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atomic watchdog report cost the belt on the motives behind its nuclear and which to run insists are peaceful about with more developments more stories for in less than half an hour from now the mean time we travel to the south of russia to visit the only put this region in europe coming care stay with us from that era. employed i have two names and my parents made me say. it was when i was fifteen years old i was accepted as a buddhist monastery just took my vows. my teacher gave me a new name illness and law joy milton nelms and means dignity lot only means

smallest. did what i was away from my home and four years studying in india at the way these are my first holidays ones honestly coincide with a festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple. filled with a sense of that i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get there. in the union along an interesting journey known as the wall its path lies ahead of me.

kalmykia is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep pier from mongolia they were called the oil rights. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comix after swearing an oath of allegiance. for the czar alexei romano. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this alone poplar tree in the step is a sacred place for all comics. legend has it that a man by the name of burke can back she a comic turned buddhist monk planted it one hundred fifty years ago. his hope was that the seeds he had brought from tibet would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its

long life remains are. these kelman women are singing one of the world's most famous put history mantras in the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. account next of kept up shall manik beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. and sisters learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to our homeland and our home when i was a child my parents affirmed the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right but it has parallels with buddhism. it is performed each year in

early spring and in autumn. in autumn will make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter after so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course was able to suppress to avert war and natural calamitous across the world. one sacred personality of cow make history is such a gun of. he is known by many titles the white old man the master and protector of the step and the patron saint of nomads. even though his teachings are rooted in sharman as a statue of him stands outside europe's largest buddhist temple called the golden about of the shockey a moonie order this sixty three metre tall building in kalmykia has capital l. a star can be seen from any point in the city.

of the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people for press services and grand festivals it attracts tourists put ists from all over the world come eat less capital. tibetan monks from the good mad monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony they begin creating a sound mandela one of the sacred traditions of potter's tensions. the sound is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened. colored marble sand is applied to the canvas through a cone shaped chain this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognised across the world. and you have

a duty goodwill b m m dollar of thirteen lemon turkey day teens i'd love to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with them dollars i'm going to see them and olive oil say i'm going to accumulate merits i'll try to achieve a yemen talking state of compassion and enlargement and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world achieve the status. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i felt my home and was too tiny as it now is seats a vast country with endless steps. because i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live. the stuff is the best place for nomads. go make it was coming here is such a big kountry that all of it rests against a scene. amazingly it means that cal makes to spend nearly all their time on the

plane a particular catching fish. then a good day hello can i hear we're sure jump on. the mickey is southeast the volga delta close to the town of lagaan a narrow channel links the solti lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. boats with homemade wooden cabins go about in the open water fisherman live hedger in the summer and autumn they spend five months a year at sea many miles from family and friends. strong arabs and flows in the caspian sea make the drastic changes in water level they form underwater sandbags and fix sediment long life boats like this one of the best form of transport and

these hazardous parts. of the fisherman have a hard job to do a cow make met and shaped like a long round chest with several meshes made a fine metal netting. quite often the nets catch seaweed as well as fish. only someone with a good deal of experience can lick on the border post with low sides and keep its balance. these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small. this is no good either would you do it on wiring. this car please ok i'll keep it by my a two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good catch it will fetch a handsome price that the market one section of the black earth nature reserve and county kids north west is of great interest to

ornithologists as the overflow and manage river empties into lake manage good deal there are no fisherman here because the water contains so much salt that fish cannot survive in it. this marshland is a protected area of comic here it has been given international status birds reigned supreme here. the archipelago was a stopping point on a grand migration path of birds halfway between europe and asia dozens of species gather here in the autumn any attempt to approach them will fail . the birds know only too well how to keep at a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instruments what you also see for why the birds stop over here is the one reason is that they will

not be disturbed while nesting and secondly the nature reserve is going to buy ranges over the years as with. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the sidebar until its trunk white nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps researches haven't yet figured out its function but if you put it there are three theories concerning it one says the nose filters like the dried dust kicked up by the herd. others say that it is an excellent cooling system that helps fend off the scorching sun the third suggestiveness i go uses this kind of nose make a peculiar glaring sound during may take ship with. alexander but my of watches and celebs on the step for several hours

a day he works for the republic's wildlife research institute which is situated well away from populated areas the institute is focused on protecting the european population of saigon antelopes. that someone working here i know that side has have different tempers just as humans do and some of them are more agile than others i would say one of them here is too energetic we call him yorker he is always taking the ball and overturning it kicks up a fuss because he thinks we don't give him enough food what i say here on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him no problem at all. a small side gar heard lives them breeds in a special and closure under human protection each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild for example of what we can route the fact that the sager has

not been thoroughly studied yet is simply because it's hard to catch this animal. only recently have researchers started taking an interest in the antelope but when so far they have only drawn pollution ery findings. with two days to go before the grand buddhist festival in alice starr volunteers are preparing the temples in syria for the rituals they are even entrusted with the honor of filling the boarders bowl of arms after the festival these twelve canonic images the founder of put his own will be sent to small rural temples and comic you . seventeen year old alina by a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice start whenever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks their. friends have brought me here i was

ashamed for something i did in the past but not anymore i have a sense that i given a helping hand here i have made demands what i did my caramel has become queen and . that's a bet in months put the finishing touches on the yamantaka sand dollar. in accordance with traditional people walk around the palace clockwise from the whole process is believed to give as many blessings to people as the number of grains of sand that went into its creation. art connoisseur terms such works symbolic obstructionism. to worshippers the mundo is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with buddhist custom the man dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony that will complete the festival. deals

in my journeys in its third day with a good is traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the move and meditation is best done out in the open. and i have no problem with the sloan. yes it's a haven symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive the calixto is a mystery to me. which as a rule i pray at sunset or the sake of all living creatures made each day be more fortunate for them than the last. world with. its technology innovation all the news developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and worshippers from india mongolia thailand and other countries barrie because it is an american doctor and personal physician to his holiness the dalai lama. he lives in the indian town of sala where he gives medical assistance to the needy. there the locals call him by the name venerable this is not barry's first visit to kill me. the good is him and comic is different then buddhism in other parts of the

world you know during these very difficult seventy years it was they nearly lost their culture completely and now they're reviving it and you can feel this revival for example i go to japan a lot in there they have a buddhist culture a buddhist history and many of the people say they're buddhist but when you ask them much about buddhism they don't know anything and you ask them or do they turn when their lives are in trouble and usually they turn to work or money but here they turn to the temple to the buddha to the teachers and that's a big difference. the temple is open to worship present taurus to like even during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place europe's only put is for public and the main attraction of chemicals capital some abroad by religion of those a curious to see its magnificent teria traditionally nearly all visitors walk

around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the gold a nine meter statue of the shock your money buddha. religion was frowned upon in soviet times i was just a little boy back then a grandmother taught me how to pray in secret in candlelight i folded my hands said prayer several times and bowed to the small figurine of computer after today any kalmia is free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle buddhism is intertwined with the history and ethnicity of our people. steeply was in caesar's once wayne a stamp locals like saying that people there are guided by the devil. to it sometimes you realize that you're going around in circles but you can't do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the stir you may get lost

. but then what is a war after all domestic animals like cows and sheep and camels able to somehow find their way back to their pens. to hump camels have helped man survive in this sparse region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital all these camels need is wormwood and thorny plants which are found in step. camels are not put off by brackish filthy water they can even do without it for several days. along with camels of lived side by side with us ever since the appearance of the first comic settlements were the best animals from an economic point of view people can live off there for milk and meats camels can

easily survive in this environment the. shepherds used to bring camels close to their camps for the night this was so they didn't have to search for them the following morning or comics and trusted the job to boys and young men horses are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse and front of a herd of camels he would rest assured that his steed would not let him down in battle it has been a long time since comics last went to war but the tradition of boys being sent to herd camels into enclosures lives on. an old cow mick proverb say's the to whip is the no man's best friend. the cow mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found door geed none to show of learned the handicraft from his father he teaches the art of

whip grading at the local school in his spare time he works at his courtyard workshop in line with an old cow make custom he hardly ever takes off his cap man aftermath of the traditional cows is an important part of culminates hire for my mother urged me to keep my care of my my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governors are gone taiji instructively all routes our ancestors to first turn their caps for the red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes to. hide starving is an important part of the whip making process today like hundreds of years ago carol's milk is used to soften the skins the hides are kept in a warm place for several days afterwards the hair is completely removed and cut

only strong elastic hides are used for making whips georgie is in the habit of making whips at sunset but dusk in the old days warrior nomads would make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip called the malia georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. through long hours cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving sure the cow macwhich is different in that it consists of several sections making it more effective because on the also it looks like a braid rather than a pattern something that the cows are with has for example here in washington. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side to prove his skill and unarmed combat. on weekends many people leave

towns and villages to attend local fairs for additional wrestling fights a regular feature of such events. the rules are simple to when contestants need to force any parts of their opponents body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the combatants are allowed to pick up the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century kalmuck wrestling with a rigorous martial art fight is frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i play day is a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo west and both freestyle and classic restless. after the end up about whatever is required to perform a dogs otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such is the helmet tradition. i. am.

i was born in the us dollar and lived there for fifteen years. in the right i like it here mostly because it's my hometown. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in a city jammed with crowds and motivators. if that's world is alien to me the american people and are always in a hurry. it is when that constant desire for a good house car job or food and clothes makes me any good nor there in a world. or even a place i believe therefore that such places are perfectly ok sions for temples you know so that people can find spiritual balance there.

the monks from various countries attending the festival of their prayers the. young ten blood boil has undertaken a long journey for the opportunity to join the. chorus of voices reading output is text is interlaced with the sound of tibetan drums cymbals and trumpets. it is all part of a sacred ritual to remove obstacles in the way of spiritual development and light a moment. and peace of mind for everybody taking part. in the. attempt is made whole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite theirs and it's a batson language that few in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary

tourists from taking part in the ritual in their own fashion. it's. candlelight at dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful part with everybody offering light to the border. this ceremony has been organized by monks from toilet. paper lantern was they brought from home a lifted by the hot sap produced by the flames. and nobody can launch one such a mountain singlehanded they're designed in such a way back to involve as many people as possible. anybody that launches a mountain is paying homage to the shock your move on cleansing that called dark

negative energy so as to reach spiritual guidance it's. played with a very very happy but it's not so much due to the wonderful ceremony. it was indeed a beautiful around but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. you know.