Seventeen Big Lights

The book of Irina Vasilyeva is a continuation of her work dedicated to the history of the Husino-Oozersky datsan, who, before the closure in 1938, remained the residence of the heads of the Buddhist Church-Bandido Hambo-Lama. Materials for Hambo-Lama biographies allow the reader to make an idea of ​​them personally and the life of the monasteries of Transbaikalia.
In his narrative, Irina Vasilieva is based mainly on the memoirs of contemporaries of Hambo-Lama, on the materials of Russian archives published and not published earlier. Many historical photographs, mainly from the author’s archive, allow you to see a number of heroes of the book with their own eyes.
The book is interesting as a cut of a two -hundred -year history of Buddhism in Transbaikalia, as the history of 17 human lives that recognized as a guide star the wisdom of a hermit from the Shakiev clan