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The article deals with the life and work of Bidiya Dandaron, an outstanding Soviet scholar, Orientalist, Buddhologist and spiritual teacher who largely contributed to the religious life of the Russian Buddhist Sangha as well as to the development of Soviet Oriental studies and Buddhology. Dandaron’s tragic fate is an example of how the Soviet policy affected believers in the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and in the entire USSR.
Keywords: Dandaron, Buddhism during the period of repression, Neobuddhism, Buddhist Sangha in the USSR.