Buryatia and Irkutsk Photos by Liladhar Pendse, July 2008

A home in Irkutsk, Siberia.





I took this photo when I was travelling from Irktusk to Ulan Ude, July 2008.





Baikal from Sukhaia.




Ivolginskii Datsan- Buryat Buddhist Temple, Vajrayana Buddhism.






The un-ending Taiga. Taezhnaia Buryatiia-Ia v tebia vlubilsa.





Museum of Ethnography-Buryatia. A church in the field was transported here for preservation purposes.




Tibetan Datsan na Lisoi Gore





Mongolian Stele- Can anyone help me to translate what it says? Thanks...





The biggest head of Lenin is to be found on the Soviet Square (Ploschad Sovetov) in Ulan Ude.