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COMBINING THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN golia; National Museum of Tuva, scientific and special institutions of the Russian Federation, as well as electronic resources of Buddhist organizations and institutes. The list of sources will be added to as the research continues. Buryatia and Transbaikalia 47 is the commonly published figure in Buryatia for the number of datsan in the territory at the time of the destruction (here Buryatia includes what is now the Republic of Buryatia as well as parts of Zabaikalskii Krai (Chitinskaya Oblast) and Irkutskaya Gubernia (now Irkutskaya oblast). The Chancery of Pandita Khampo Lama drew up the list of monasteries in the territory in December 1911. He listed 31 monasteries, all of which printed Buddhist texts.” The larger figure of 47 monasteries in Buryatia comes from one of the first official maps of the Buryat Republic published in 1924 by Burnakomzem and a key paper published in 1983 by researchers led by K. M. Gerasimova.”° For a deeper understanding there are works devoted to the study of individual monasteries of Buryatia or special aspects of Buddhism in this region. For example, D. Zhamsueva. wrote monographs about several datsans of the eastern part of Transbaikalia,”’ V. Ts. Lyksokova about Alarskiy datsan (Rus. Anapcxuit nauaH), Chimitdorzhin about Ivolginskiy datsan (Rus. Mponruuckuii jaan), a group of Buryat Tibetologists wrote about the practice of block printing in the Buryat Buddhist monasteries and so on." However, using readily available sources in English, a provisional list of 60 datsans has been generated. This now needs to be assessed against the received number by a thorough search of archives not just in Ulan-Ude and Kyakhta but also in relevant Institutions and Archives in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chita and Irkutsk. Thanks to the results of the comprehensive research by A. A. Terentyev in Buryatia being published in his book in 2014,” the project now has archive photographs of 33 historical Buryat datsans. Terentyev who studied for many years with learned lamas in Aginsky and Ivolginsky Datsans, travelled widely in the territory collecting information and photographs on the datsans from Buryat lama teachers and local people as well as studying archival material. This resulted in him being able to identify many of the datsans. More widely the issue of identification of objects in old photographs is one that will have to be addressed by the project team. Experience of working with archive images of monasteries in Mongolia has shown the authors just how challenging identification can be. The work done by Terentyev in this regard not 5 Four Mongolian Historical Records. Ed. and transl. Rinchen, B. with a foreword by Raghu Vira. Sata-Pitaka series; v. 11; v. 2. International Academy of Indian Culture, New Delhi 1959. Tanganosa, I. P. — Tepacumora, JI. b. — aumes, J]. b. — MurynoB, I. LI.: JJamausm e bypamuu XVIII —xHauasa XX eeKa: CMpyKMypa U COYUGIbHAA POlb Kybmo6ou Cucmemol. Hayka, HoBocuönpck 1983. 26 7 )Kamcyesa, J]. C.: AewucKue dayanoı kak namamnuku ucmopuu u Kynomypoı. Yınau-Yı3 2001. 8 Cprprpmosa, C. JI. — apmaepa, X. 1K. — Basapos, A. A. Bydduticxoe khuzoneuamanue Bypamuu … > Tepeutses, A.: Byodusm 8 Poccuu — yapckoü u cosemcroü (cmapvie @omoepaguu). msn. Hapran, Canxt-Ietep6ypr 2014. 359
