Snelling John. Buddhism in Russia: the story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's emissary to the tzar

Element Books, 1993. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1-85230-332-8Foreword VI
Preface Vlll
Acknowledgements Xlll
Illustrations between pp. 176 and 177
1. The Buryats 1
2. Early Life 1854-1873 11
3. Tibet and Wu T'ai Shan 1873-1888 22
4. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama 1888-1898 32
5. Ukhtomsky's Summons 1898 43
6. Mission to Europe 1898-1899 53
7. The Mfair of the Steel Bowls 1899-1901 66
8. The Tibetan Mission of 1901 77
9. Among the Kalmyks and the Buryats 1901-1903 90
10. The Young husband Mission to Lhasa 1903-1904 102
11. The Dalai Lama in Exile 1904-1908 115
12. A Heathen Temple in Christian Petersburg 1908-1910 129
13. The Turning Point 1909-1913 142
14. The Fall of the House of Romanov 1914-1917 157
15. The World Turned on its Head 1917-1918 173
16. Fellow Traveller 1918-1920 187
17. Reform and Renaissance 1920-1924 202
18. Gathering Clouds 1925-1929 218
19. The Destruction of Buddhism in the USSR and the Death of Agvan Dorzhiev 1930-1938 236
20. After Dorzhiev 1938-1991 255
Appendix 1 Pre-1940 Datsans of Trans-Baikalia 268
Appendix 2 Dorzhiev's Inventory of Items Looted from the Petrograd Buddhist Temple in 1919 269
Notes 270
Glossary 306
Bibliography 311
Index 318