The Ideal of Buddhist Layman in the Buryat Buddhist Tradition (A Case Study of the Didactic Work by E.-K. Galshiev "The Mirror of Wisdom")
This paper offers a reconstruction of an image of an ideal Buddhist layman in Buryat Buddhist tradition. The conclusion is made that the ideal drawn in “The Mirror of Wisdom” combines features of traditionalism and patriarchal way of life on the one hand and progressiveness on the other.