Hambo lama Itigelov’s return and a new concept of revival of Buryatia

The paper deals with construction of revival ideology in Buryatia in a context of ethnic and civil discourses. The author argues that now the ideas on the phenomenon of the returning of Hambo lama XII Dashi Dorzho Itigelov’s EternalBody as a significant component of Buddhist renewalhave been already formed. At the same time, modern mentality forces to look for the use of Itigelov’s phenomenon in pragmatic purposes, namely for solving economic problems of Buryatia.