Baikal is waiting for tourists to Buddhist New Year

Baikal offers an unusual opportunity to celebrate the Buddhist New Year. Tourists can celebrate the arrival of "the year the White Rabbit" on the lunar calendar, communicating with spiritual leaders of Buddhism, taking part in ceremonies and getting acquainted with the ancient traditions of the indigenous population of Baikal. Such a program developed tour operator "Baikal Adventure", noting that interest in Buddhism and Eastern culture in Russia is large enough. The first days of the guests spend on shore of Lake Baikal in the area Enkhaluk 170 kilometers from Ulan-Ude. Here, tour participants will be able to communicate daily with the monks: an astrologer, an expert on Tibetan medicine and manual therapist who specifically come here from datsan on the tour. At the same time lectures on the basics of Buddhism and Tibetan medicine. On the last day of the trip tourists visit Ivilginski temple - the spiritual center of Russian Buddhism, known for Hambo Lama Itigelov, which according to legend, is a long meditation for over 50 years. Itigelov body remains incorruptible in a position in one of the temples datsan. Buddhists believe that it can work wonders. New Year on the lunar calendar observed on different dates in January and February, and in 2011 it will come on February 3. In the Buddhist Buryat this festival lasts for a month and called Sagaalgan, or "feast of the White Month". All those days in the Buddhist datsans go holiday prayers, as guests are greeted by traditional good wishes and treat dairy foods, white which symbolizes purity and prosperity.