i swear half open. only so nothing supernatural no noise or anything of the kind. in ninety five percent of cases it is closed off but today among go in delegation is arriving. so i think they will open it for them. feel we have a get to glimpse the miracle but that sun is difficult to reach it takes four days to get here from moscow by trailer and even then not everyone is allowed to get close to it. this is a republic of the heart of russian buddhism. the

buddhist university of. the through the course. of intense study. will receive a degree in philosophy and the title. it's. the phrase russian buddhism may sound strange but it has been one of the traditional religions of the country. studied buddhist philosophy medicine and. the university and a study. of the same traditions of centuries past. through studying. to reach.

even though the republican is part of russia. different from those typical of the western parts of russia when it comes to religion the difference is striking. here. twenty four year old came here from the caucasus. can be found there christianity. was not a religious person initially he studied music for years playing the drums and once he graduated from a faculty. and came here just to look at the miracle of. i wondered what the meaning of. this question had come so i traced the change which.

gets. the family. to me. breakfast. this is a lesson in the language it's the most difficult of the studied languages but it's all but extinct. to read ancient but his texts

students sit on the floor because they're not supposed to be at the same height as the teacher subordination is as important here as in the. there are four departments of the buddhist university philosophy medicine religion and. its graduates the reputation for doctors astrologers and psychics. ordinary secular visitors come to the. list of people hoping for a miracle. here at ever gets good at sun one of the wonders of the buddhist world can be found in one thousand nine hundred twenty seven the lama named it to get off passed away or so it was thought before his death he prophesied that he would return. in two thousand and two his grave was opened to reveal something quite extraordinary his body had not declared it to go off was placed in

a separate temple at your organs get out san. lucas residents are not allowed to look at him except eight special worship days each year tourists are not allowed to even inside those who come on official business as well as all superior is. a replica of its body can be found near the temple which everyone can worship. as for the motor body three monks keep watch over him. as its chief guardian he holds the keys to the temple on his belt. a little boy lived here in the mid nineteenth century he was five years old and an orphan as a rule the body has to not have orphans if something happens to a child's parents his relatives adopt him immediately the boy was a shepherd but he told everyone that he would become aloma no one took him seriously until the moment he arrived on a bull holding a stuff with a skull after that the people stop smoking him a few years later he became

a student at the sun. that's a little boy became known as does he do it to get off lama during the russian japanese war it to get off the strength of the morale of the soldiers and gathered funds for the hospitals during world war one deal with eyes to charity foundation to help the front end to get off received state awards for his efforts. eventually people started spreading legends about him as he used to be said that he could. the horse across water. the spring close to it to go off home is also believed to have miraculous properties today people flock here with canisters to take water away with them according to buddhist tradition only men not permitted to do it. deal. this is the house where it's a gale of meditative. it has now been renovated and before that it was just

an ordinary small house in the berry at style. in this house is a good long lived as a hermit for the last ten years of his life he meditated here one day he gathered along as close to him and asked him to say a farewell prayer alone was refused how could they say that to somebody who was still alive then began saying it himself. and literally came to a dead stop in the press and. in that condition he was placed in a wooden box and buried but before leaving this world it's a good offer had said that he would return. the dots on way to go off served was destroyed by so if you told us he's the palace of culture was built their stead but one day it was destroyed by fire the place had

rejected the new culture seventy five years after it again and it's holy on and on follow the path of the two lumps and demba back then the two men were looking for there to get a final resting place they did not have an exact location instead they relied on. and against all odds they found it. when we open the bokes we could smell the devouring fragrances a strong smell. it was so wonderful so good his head was clearly outlined the skin on his head was normal and one was. this unique footage was momentous for the entire buddhist world everybody present expected to see a human skeleton it's the only video of it to get off body now filming him is forbidden. i did the right thing refusing to be there when i was

examined you see when those people saw his body they were shocked. dr alexei as jeff has been watching over it's a ghost body for ten years and there is no vacuum there so the body is supposed to decay but the immune system somehow maintains the balance much of the body less frequently now there are no changes whatsoever so there's no need to fuss over it just. to rule the tests were carried out we realized that the science was a dead end the scientists took samples of hair and nails and everything suggested that it was a living person. to understand this phenomenon or topsy is required but we called for the body is sacred. in january two thousand and five the head of russia's buddhists banned any medical examination of the ridiculous body. one

explanation is that he is in a very deep meditation you may be consciously and must himself into a state where all the processes in the body run at a tremendously slow pace. so for him the seconds ago by us years long years. for us seventy five years have passed and for him it may seem like seventy five minutes. or even less. several years ago and italy saw the miracle with his own eyes he became interested in buddhism and stayed here anatoly worked in the house for six months job was hot but his desire to study buddhism was stronger. imagine having the gift of clairvoyance. that means you can remember all your past lives. supernatural powers so it was

six months later and italy into the university together with sixty other students but after four years only twenty of them were left student life here is not unlike an extreme survival course especially for those who used to live in the city they have to build their own homes there's no central heating only a wood burning furnace plumbing is nonexistent the interior is closer to that of a field barracks. those immersed in their studies do not notice such trivial things there is known as overcoming the designs of regular life. i have not overcome anything yet. for example it's very unhealthy to eat before going to bed but i still want to eat something in the evening. i also wrestle with a craving to sleep it is my favorite attachment. for example were given to better

than sex that we should learn by heart during the day. you every time we have to learn several pages. and it's very difficult to overcome but the hardest thing of all is to suppress theory. before starting his new life and it'll be studied music. he used to play drums for before he came to the. sometimes. his instrument he shows pictures of his bandmates posted on the internet. this is a friend of mine we started at the music school together. and failed to find any references to. his previous life is. yet there was still

drums in his life. quite a different. family .

i could get cheap labor. legally fly legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the law so i figure this here's one of the trails into the united states. and they run run down my property and see about this noise. roaches from coming over the wire protecting the country and the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness pay and sturdy so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all share some sorrow. over.

the speed. limits. a little bit. of buddhist monks education takes place just at the university but in everyday life

too several students. and. required that one lives together with them. knows how his friends live in the city he looks at their cars apartments and new t.v. sets as if they were nothing but pieces of metal yet out of courtesy he joins the conversations about horse power or the resolution of screens and pixels. what is the goal in life. well you have to study find a job settle down. and then no one tells you what to do next. for a broad minded person like me such tasks seem to be too small. it could be that man was created just for that i could ban have come into this world just for the sake of material possessions she must know my goal why not because i think differently.

if. students really have to leave to go to the city it's only when teachers instruct them to do so today they have to take translations of tibetan texts to the printing office and to buy a few things needed for the. students usually change their clothes when visiting the city. only there are a few europeans here at the. students. one can show an interest in buddhism but going to a learning are two completely different things all the more so by local standards. to them your appearance with our slavic appearance may look like

a mockery of their values. we've arrived. so. given by the. five minutes it took the students longer to get to the printing office to minimize urban temptations that may lead them astray the teachers came up with a trick they shifted their students weekends to day so that they'd have fewer opportunities to meet with their friends from their previous lives. the chief problem for the students is temptation. just once would tarnish their conscience. is the same as for the girls they refer to as mara an evil spirit who tempts on one occasion the deaths because he could not stand breaking up with his

girlfriend. that took him away. little time in the city as possible when they reach their fourth year at the. strange from civilization another trip to the city becomes a burden for them. to the city. campus with no rushing back and forth and the people. come out of the woods. at the very peaceful.

debate is the most important part of learning it consists of philosophical arguments in the tibetan language students don't just wave their hands they throw questions at each other this form of conversation has not changed in millennia anton explains the debate is logic training only concrete questions are asked those answers lead to the next question the greater part of their free time between morning and evening classes is spent preparing for debate at the moment and on is busy with another topic for discussion. one question would be debated is can the consciousness of a person with nihilistic views recognise a logical argument. which.

anton is twenty four used to live not far from moscow in the city of tula and on studied physics at university but in his second year he quit to come here anton has an elder brother and a sister in russian folktales the youngest son is always a fool. i am the youngest child in my family. what is the attitude to the youngest one. everybody considers you to be silly. they think you're just a little boy. i'm always told ok that's enough it's time for you to come back home. but life is good here. they ask me what i am going to do after life in the debts. they say they are worried about my social status.

and i say that i do not care much about it though sometimes i do think about what i'm going to do next. logic and delta two fundamental principles of buddhism and tone says that it's just like in physics the only difference is that while physics studies matter buddhism examines the spirit. believes that a physicist can easily become a buddhist. and is to become a philosopher. geisha is more used to the term of wise old man to whom they can come for advice there are no fixed prices for services visitors give as much as they see fit. there's even been cases where the lama was presented with a cult for good advice. i am not going to become a or live the life of local lamas. that's not

going to happen that's for sure. i cannot imagine such a way of life. i can't imagine becoming the head of a temple. should i be the one calling people to come here to pray should that be the case. i don't think so. it's. says. the everlasting body is not the only miracle connected with it to get off limits he entered this mysterious state at a time when buddhism was virtually destroyed russia has miraculous return of the

revival but it's culture that sense of it in a body at your a game now young people like anton and elena totally have a chance to choose a new finn life. but i could have made up a fascinating story about a life full of suffering and unrequited love. and all that eventually brought me here to try and reach the spiritual state of buddha i could have told you that i would be helping everyone i would be reading mantras for the sake of all living creatures. but things are not that simple. honestly i do not know myself what is going to happen to me. and know what the future holds in store for him but he is certain that he will

continue his education he may leave the datsun and go to india to study buddhism there. the thing it is that an ordinary person believes that he is living his only life right now so when mistakes seem really scary the what if this is not the case. is a geometric model of the universe a sacred image music consoles are coming to the construction ritual the monks spend alice working on the cold canvas only to destroy it later as any model of the universe is but his terms question.

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welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t.e. around over the top news stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in and first russia's warning that the u.n. human rights resolution condemning the syrian leadership for last week's houla massacre risk still railing the peace plan moscow called it premature because the investigation's ongoing and that is putting pressure on the security council where russia is resisting foreign military action on sunday president assad insisted his troops had nothing to do with the slaughter of more than one hundred people in the city he blamed armed rebel gangs for the attack and outside forces were instigating the conflict to trigger intervention washington which backs the syrian opposition and the push for regime change admits there are plans for military action a former syrian ambassador to turkey says he expects an escalation of what he calls foreign funded terrorism. over five thousand violations by the groups.