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Kalmykia’s Top Buddhist Leader Leads Peace Prayers, Urges End to Conflicts

The temple’s profile in Buddhist Kalmykia gives the call broad symbolic weight.

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.