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 outside 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 and. this is the republic of the hans 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 the eighteenth century. studied buddhist philosophy medicine and. the university where anton and study. of the same traditions of centuries past. through studying to achieve. and 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 i. came here just to look at the miracle of. i wondered what the meaning of. this question had come so i traced the chain which.

the family. used. to me i thought that. i wanted something. they have. this is a lesson in the language it's the most difficult of the studied languages it's all but extinct. to read ancient but it's texts. 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. university philosophy medicine religion. graduates the reputation for. secular visitors. to people. here 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 divergence good at san. lucas residence are not allowed to look at him except eight special worship days each year tourists are not allowed to evo 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 a loma no one took him seriously until the moment he arrived on a bull holding a stuff with a skull after that the people stopped mocking him

a few years later he became a student at the death sun. vestal boy became known as does 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 and 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 gallop a whole. 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. don't feel. this is the house way it's a gale of meditating. it has now been renovated that it was just

an ordinary small house in the borealis 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 the lawn was close to him and asked him to say a farewell prayer 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 gets a good laugh and said that he would return. to. the dutch sunway to get off served was destroyed by so if you took a 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 that again anatolian anton follow the path of the two love us. 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 fragrance is a strong smell of june. 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 girl's 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 that shook the body less frequently mel there are no changes whatsoever so there's no need to fuss over it just. to rule the tests were carried out we realize 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 top see 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 body. one

explanation is that he is in a very deep meditation you may be consciously amassed himself into a state where all the processes in the body run at a tremendously slow pace so for him and the seconds ago where for us year is 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 i not only saw the miracle with his own eyes he became interested in buddhism and stayed here anatoly work to the boiler house for six months job was hard but his desire to study buddhism was stronger. imagine having the gift of clairvoyance. was that means you can remember all your past lives. as 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 here it's 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

sex that we should learn by heart during the day just. every time we have to learn several pages but. you end up in a trance and fall asleep. and it's very difficult to overcome but the hardest thing of all is to suppress your ego. before starting his new life and he studied music for. he used to play drums for a bit before he came to the. sometimes. his instrument he shows pictures of his band mates posted on the internet. this is a friend of mine. music school together. and italy fails to find any references to. his previous life is. yet there was

still drums in his life. quite a different. family . decided i could get cheap labor and.

legally 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 last i figure it's here's one of the major trails in the united states. and they run run down my property and somehow this noise. forges from coming over the wire is protecting the country and the kind of guy who doesn't mind it is pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all share some sorry ass. hold it. hold it.

till. the street. her. mom is so good. i. bet a little. a buddhist monks education takes place just at the university but in everyday life

too several students who want to. require that one lives together with them. knows how his friends live in the city he looks at their cars apartments a 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.

students really have to leave the dots and 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. if you europeans here at the. students. learning are two completely different things all the more so by local standards. appearance may look like

a mockery of their values. anyway we've arrived. so you know where to go. the task given. them 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 choose 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 meeting with a friend is the same as for the girls they refer to as mara an evil spirit who attempts on one occasion a man left the death because he could not stand breaking up with his girlfriend.

that took him away students themselves try to spend as little time in the city as possible when they reach their fourth year at the. they become totally strange from civilisation another trip to the city becomes a burden for them. travelling to the city to. find yourself a closed campus with no cars rushing back and forth and the people. here in the city you feel as you have come out of the woods. in this is. very peaceful very. calm. but here things are quite the opposite.

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 that 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 his busy with another topic for discussion. one question that 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. is to become a philosopher. geisha is more used to the term of wise old man to whom they can come for advice 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. not

going to happen that's for sure. but i cannot imagine such a way of life. i can't imagine becoming the head of a temple. third should i be the one calling people to come here to pray should that be the case. i don't think so. it's. the everlasting body is not the only miracle connected with it again. 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 again now we aren't people like anton and on a totally have a chance to choose a new finn life. but i could've 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 no jeff 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 and songs accompany the construction ritual the monks spend hours working on the cult members only to destroy it later as any model of the universe is it but his terms question.

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it's midnight in moscow this is archie coming to you live from new sanaa way with our weekly program a look back at the top stories from the last seven days we begin with russia's warning that the u.n. human rights resolution condemning the syrian leadership for last week's houla massacre risks to rallying the peace plan on scott called it premature because the investigation's ongoing and that it's putting pressure on the security council or russia resisting foreign military action on sunday president also insisted his troops had nothing to do with the slaughter of more than one hundred people in the city he blames armed rebel gangs for the attack and outside forces for instigating the conflict to trigger intervention washington which backs the syrian opposition and force that all set out admits there are plans for military action.