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the Goose Lake is the most important, and there resides the
chief of the Siberian adherents of the Lama faith,
Bandilochambo-lama. At the same place is a library containing
a very valuable collection of books and manuscripts in the
Tibetan and Mongolian languages. Great annual religious
festivals also take place at this monastery.
Part of the Buriats, the so-called Yasátchni (tributary),
having married Russian women, belong nominally to the
orthodox Russian Church, although secretly continuing their
sacrifices to the Shaman divinities. The pagan Buriats
have also to some degree been influenced by the official
Russian religion, and the Shamans sometimes use the sign
of the Cross at their pagan ceremonies. The natives have
learned from the Russians better agricultural methods and
how to build better houses.
On the other hand, the Russian settlers here have to a
great extent become “Buriatised”, as the Russians in
Yakutsk have been “Yakutised”. This is to be seen not
only in physical changes of the Russian type—the dark
colour of hair, eyes, and skin, and the Mongolian or Tatarian
facial traits characterising the old Russian population in
Siberia—but also in their habits and ideas. Thus, both here
and in Yakutsk, the old Russian settlers and their descendants
have forgotten their mother-tongue, and speak only the Buriat
and Yakut languages, or some kind of mixed tongue. Their
Russian orthodoxy has also become very much weakened,
many of them cherishing stronger faith in the powers of
the Shaman than in the ceremonies of the Russian priest.
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