Overview
- The Tibetan Buddhist temple in Elista hosted a peace prayer Tuesday, according to a Kyodo News dispatch from the site.
- The region’s highest‑ranking Buddhist monk led the service and called for all conflicts to end.
- Reports describe the Elista complex as the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Europe.
- Elista is the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia in southern Russia, about 1,000 kilometers from Moscow.
- Regional Japanese newspapers carried the Kyodo report, and no steps beyond the public appeal were reported.