Datsan "Gunzechoinei", St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg Buddhist temple was built in 1909-1915. on the initiative of the outstanding Buryat lama and scientist Agvan Lobsan Dorzhiev (1853/54−1938). The architectural project of the temple was developed by Nikolai Matveyevich Berezovsky, a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and Gavriil Vasilyevich Baranovsky, an architect, on the model of a Tibetan cathedral church (“tsogchen-dugan”), which, however, was subjected to significant Europeanization in the spirit of Northern modernity.
The temple was consecrated on August 10, 1915 and received a Tibetan name: Kun la brtse mdzad thub dbang mchhos byung ba’i gnas (Source of the Holy Teachings of the All-Compassionate Lord Hermit).


Original sound - "Mantra of love and tenderness".

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