Tamchinsky datsan (Gusinoye Ozero)

Russia / Burjatija / Gusinoye Ozero
 interesting place, place of worship, buddhist monastery

The Tamchinsky datsan (also called the Tamchinskii datsan or Gusinoozyorsk Datsan) is a Buddhist monastery founded in the mid-18th century in the village of Gusinoye Ozero, located on the south-western shore of Lake Gusinoye, Buryat Republic, Russia.

In 1809, the monastery became "the center of Buddhism in eastern Siberia".[1]

Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov received his medical training here.[2]

The temple, which was ransacked in the 1930s, was being restored as of 2013 "as part of the revival of the Buddhist cultural and spiritual legacy in Buriatiia."[1]
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Coordinates:   51°7'17"N   106°15'52"E
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