The Datsan Gunzechoinei is a large Buryat Buddhist datsan in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the northernmost Buddhist temple in Europe.
Datsan Gunzechoinei Face
Northern face of the temple
Main entrance to the temple
Karl Tõnisson Buddhist monk from Estonia, in front of Datsan Gunzechoinei, Saint Petersburg’s Buddhist Temple
The Ahnenerbe was a pseudoscientific organization founded by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany in 1935. Established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on July 1, 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to pr
Datsan Gunzechoinei
…and shot the same day. The temple was spared from bombing during the Siege of Leningrad thanks to the lobbying by the Buddhist sympathizers within Ahnenerbe. In 1989 the Buddhist community in Saint Petersburg was officially recognised. That year a service was held by the Most Reverend Lama, the 19th Kushok…
Adolf Hitler, whose racial beliefs inspired research carried out by the Ahnenerbe
Wewelsburg, which Himmler adopted as an SS base on the advice of the occultist Karl Maria Wiligut
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and founder of the Ahnenerbe
Scan from Ahnenerbe co-founder Herman Wirth's 1931 book Was heißt deutsch?