Origin from 1630
In 1630, the Kalmyks, an Oirat Mongol people who had already turned toward the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, completed their migration from Dzungaria into the lower Volga steppe, settling on land once held by the Astrakhan Khanate. Their arrival made the Kalmyk Khanate the first, and still today the only, indigenous home of Tibetan Buddhism on the European continent. Russia's 1727 Treaty of Kyakhta with China formally acknowledged Buddhism's presence on Russian controlled land for the first time, and the Kalmyks kept close ties to Buddhist centers in Tibet and Mongolia into the late eighteenth century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account StatusSourced to the subject's own accountArrived marks the Oirats' own migration carrying an already Buddhist population onto new, European territory, not a claim about when Buddhist teaching first reached any individual Oirat, which the sources place earlier, in the early seventeenth century, among princes still in Dzungaria. Connections
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This source names Mongolia directly: "ties to Buddhist centers in Tibet and Mongolia into the late eighteenth century."
Source Kalmyk Khanate (Wikipedia)
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Fills the map's own long silence between 1578's second conversion of Mongolia and 1853's arrival in the United States, carrying Buddhism for the first time onto European soil rather than further into Asia.
Source Kalmyk Khanate (Wikipedia)
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