Social and religious processes of the development of Buddhism in Russia and Mongolia

Twenty years of post-Soviet development of Russia and Mongolia in the framework of democratic political system and institutions of civil society, the formation of religious freedom and the lack of state ideology, shifts in the socioeconomic structure significantly changed the position of the Buddhist religion in these countries. The development of Buddhism in Russia and Mongolia is ambiguously treated in the public information space, scientific literature and public opinion. This process affects all aspects of social life; it has socio-cultural, political and economic content and goes on both at the level of institutionalization of religious organizations and in the everyday practices of social interaction.