Abstract
The rise of global environmental awareness results in searching for new sources of ecological values not only in Western ones, but also in Eastern traditions, and Indigenous world views. Our study shows the traditional ecological values of the Buryat people in the contemporary Buryat literature. The Buryat people are an ethnic group living in Southeastern Siberia, on the shores of Lake Baikal, Russia. They represent the major northern subgroup of the Mongolian people and are one of the largest ethnic groups of Siberia. The Buryat literature embodies a certain set of ethno-ecological concepts based on the combination of mythological ideas and Buddhist philosophy and ethics. The image of the mother nature has become one of the fundamental ideas in the Buryat culture and is widely used by the Buryat authors. Sacralization of the natural world is embodied in the genres of chanting and glorification of nature and its spirits. Rooted in Buddhist philosophy, the motif of harmony between the man and nature is inherent to the traditional Buryat worldview and allows the Buryat writers to build the plot of their works with the constant reminder of human responsibility, karmic interdependence of all phenomena in the world.
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Galina DondukovaJunior Researcher, Department of Literary and Folklore Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation Irina Bulgutova
Associate Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, Banzarov Buryat State University , Buryatiya, Respublika, Russian Federation
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Ecological Values, Shamanic Mythology, Buddhist Philosophy, Buryat Literature
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