This is a lift for goods and building materials from the steepest section of the trail:
On the trail, in good weather and on weekends, pilgrims are constantly encountered, curiously and simply tourists passing through the monastery insofar as.
on the right in the hole - hens with chickens
Solar panels hang here and there on the walls. There is a bathhouse, they will also offer to take a steam bath in it, if it is ready.
Water is taken from two clean lakes under the stones. It is a rarity and value at the top of the mountain.
Here - drinking
And here - for household needs:
an impromptu aqueduct pipeline is visible. Everything is thought out and convenient.
Vegetable garden: We went to him for the first time
So extra rocks are crumbled here - they heat up and beat with a sledgehammer
They will not tear the monastery down for a quarry in the near future - either the economic crisis is to blame, or this is the way things are.
A pleasant and unusual place, appropriate here whether you are a Buddhist or just a good person. I am glad to be here again.
Buddhist temple on Mount Kachkanar
We went on this trip in August 2011. I accidentally saw a winter photo of the Buddhist Awakening Stupa on the Internet and said: "I want to go there." We, of course, are not Buddhists, and we went not even out of idle curiosity, but with the aim of learning: what kind of monastery in the mountains is and how you can live there ... And the mountain, they say, is beautiful, only you can't climb it.
At the entrance to the city, we understand that it is on a mountain, because from the road you could see beautiful distances. As they later learned, it is called Dolgaya Mountain. Directly from the city you can see Mount Kachkanar in all its beauty and grandeur, but only one of its peaks.
Mount Kachkanar is the highest peak of the Middle Urals, its height is 887.6 m. Once upon a time it was a sacred place for the Mansi pagan population. With the advent of Buddhism to the Mongol-Oirat steppes, bloodless sacrifices were made to the rulers of the mountains, and live animals were donated. The family that moved to a new place needed to make an offering to the spirit of the area on the highest hill or mountain. Not only did the Mansi praise Mount Kachkanar, but the Kalmyks also worshiped it to provide them with support in risky activities. Between the city and the Kachkanar mountain flows the Vyya river, turned by a dam into the Nizhnevyi reservoir.
"Kachkanar Sea" - this is what the people call the Nizhnevyi reservoir. In the interfluve of the Is and Vyi rivers on the Vyya river, a dam was built and the Kachkanar pond was dug. Drinking water is taken from one half of the reservoir for the city, on the other half there is a beach, a boat station, and they fish in the pond. Several thousand fry of carp, silver carp and grass carp were launched into the reservoir. Along the southern shore of the pond, in its upper part, there is the border of the Sverdlovsk and Perm regions. We were lucky with a place to spend the night on the bank of the reservoir and we watched a beautiful sunset all evening.
And at night the moon was shining in full force. We even woke up because a lunar path “runs” from the moon across the lake right to our tent. But, unfortunately, I didn't want to get up and take a picture of her, the dream took its toll.
Waking up at 8 o'clock in the morning, having breakfast and swimming, we set off on our way - to look for a monastery on the mountain. We got to the barrier of the Western Quarry, parked the car (there are a lot of them there), loaded ourselves with backpacks and set off. The road is very dusty at first because MAZs and other equipment drive from quarry to quarry. Walk along it only 500 meters. Then there will be a road slightly to the left to the ski slope, but there is no need to go to it. But the next turn to the left leads to the monastery and Mount Camel. Then you need to go all the time to the left, do not turn to the right, except to look at the quarry itself from the observation deck. After about 2 km there will be a turn to the right, where you can see the Western quarry of Vysokogorsky GOK.
The quarry, of course, is impressive, it is interesting to watch how everything is scurrying far below, but from the dust there was poor visibility of everything that could be seen far away.
A detailed study of the Kachkanar ore-bearing massif began in the 30-40s. In 1931 it was established that it consists of two deposits - Gusevogorsky and Kachkanarsky. On June 10, 1950, a decree was adopted on the construction of the country's largest mining and processing plant (GOK) at the foot of Mount Kachkanar with a capacity of 33 million tons of crude iron ore per year.
On May 27, 1957, the first detachment of daredevils came to Mount Dolgaya. The products of the GOK go to the Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Plant, the Chelyabinsk and Chusovoy Metallurgical Plants. We saw how others work and return to the embankment to continue climbing. Then go about 4 km to the fork, where the trees are marked with white ribbons, where the building materials are, where the monastery equipment stands, etc.
Straight ahead - the road to the "mountain lake", about three hundred meters and on the right there will be a small pond, which used to be a quarry. But we didn't go there. And to the right is the path leading to the monastery. Climb to the monastery for about 1 km. If you take some building materials with you and bring it to the monastery, then you will be given tea as a token of gratitude. Such assistance is also an entrance ticket to the territory of the monastery. Along the path, laid out of stone, planks, gratings, we go to the "Stupa of Awakening".
The ascent to the visible building of the monastery is a small kurumnik - a road of stones.
In front of this kurumnik there is a rather large clearing, where you can take a break.
There is still poor visibility in the distance due to quarrying.
We go up to the Stupa of Awakening.
At the entrance there are the rules of the monastery, a gong, security guards, local animals, and already quite a lot of interesting things. You won't notice everything at once, for example, we considered everything anew on the way back ...
And then a monk meets us and invites us to have tea. Then they tell how to get to the camel mountain and to the monument to Yuri Gagarin! Yes, there is such a thing !!!
Through the territory of the monastery to the Camel rock to go about 200 m. It is beautiful, dignified and huge. This is it from afar, from the main summit, where we will go further.
But what can be seen from the humps of the camel is also unforgettable! This is exactly the top of the mountain that could be seen from the city. That is, if you reach it, you can see both the pond and the city.
This is the same quarry that we examined on the way to the monastery.
And this is all that is around!
To go from Camel to the main peak of Kachkanar, you need to find a path that is trodden on the right at its base. Walk along it to the main peak of the Middle Urals for 15-20 minutes. From Mount Camel it can be seen exactly in the middle with a metal spire at the very top.
And what kind of views open up from it! At the foot of this side of the mountain is the village of Kosya.
The monastery itself is visible.
From the main summit there is a well-trodden path to the summit of the mountain closest to the city. We were told to walk for about 1 hour. It is a pity, but we did not have enough time to get there, and we went back to the monastery for a tour of its territory. While walking, we tried to photograph everything that came across on the way.
And now about the territory…. Monastery "Shad Tchup Ling" is being built in the rocks on the northeastern slope of Mount Kachkanar at an altitude of 843 meters above sea level. The construction is carried out according to the ancient Tibetan and Mongolian canons of monastery architecture, which allows preserving the ecosystem of the area and harmoniously fitting the complex of structures into the picturesque landscape of Mount Kachkanar. The main function of the monastery is to organize and provide a Buddhist practical process: conducting rituals, services, traditional festive events, individual and collective practices
One of the main goals of the construction of the monastery complex is the preservation of Buddhist teachings and, in particular, a unique system of self-knowledge and self-improvement, which is Tantric Buddhism. One of the key buildings of the monastery is a stupa. A stupa (chorten, suburgan) is one of the important attributes of Buddhism. It is a monument to the enlightened mind of Buddha, and is also a vertical model of the universe. It is installed in certain places, harmonizing and structuring the space around itself. This is a pasture.
Here is the entrance to the courtyard.
Apparently, the local power plant ...
Inside the buildings ...
Mountain herbs.
In the monastery, right on the mountain, there is even a bathhouse. Rope crossing for weight lifting.
Library.
1st floor - library, 2nd floor - living rooms.
Next to the library, on the 1st floor, there is a stoker (lined with stone). A tea house is painted green, and above it is a children's room.
The plan of the monastery in the future.
ATTENTION!!! From the trip, we do not advertise to monks, do not call for people to leave their homes to live in this monastery, and also do not spread this religion. There were no calls to us from the monks to stay and accept their teachings, but the stunning beauty around, the silence and tranquility are very conducive to well ... stay at least a little bit ... make you want to get away from the bustle of the city ... Therefore, I will give a biography of the monk in a very brief summary only with an informative purpose.
Biography of Lama Sanye Tenzin Dokshita
Tendzin Dokshit (in the world Mikhail Vasilyevich Sannikov) was born on November 30, 1961 in the city of Votkinsk, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in a family of hereditary military men. In 1979 he was admitted to the Perm Agricultural Institute. Graduated from civil aviation courses. In May 1980 he was drafted into the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces.
In February 1981 he was sent under a contract to Afghanistan. One of the permanent main tasks of his group in Afghanistan was the destruction of the caravans with weapons going to the Mujahideen from Pakistan. In 1987 he retired with the rank of captain. For several months he worked in the morgue of the Leninsky district of Perm as an orderly and an assistant pathologist.
He studied at the Nizhny Tagil Art School. From his former mentor in Japanese sword fighting (Kendo) he learned about the existence of the Buddhist tradition in Buryatia. In 1989 he entered the Ivolginsky Datsan, where he was assigned to a group specializing in Buddhist Tantra, which was selected by Lama Pema Jang (Darma-Dodi Zhalsaraev), and took monastic vows under the name Tenzin Dokshit.
In 1991-1993. lived in the city of Gusinoozyorsk, then - in Tanchin-datsan of Dashi Gandan Darzhaling (Gusinoe Ozero settlement), where he underwent practice in performing rituals. In the summer of 1993 he traveled to Mongolia, where he received initiation into the Yamantaka tantra from Lama Sanzhe-la in a retreat near the city of Orkhontuul (Selenginsky aimak). In December 1994 he was ordained a lama. In the winter of 1995, his Root Teacher, Pema Dzhang, gave him an order to build a Buddhist datsan in Russia, indicating the place of construction - the top of Mount Kachkanar (Sverdlovsk region).
The temple was named "Shadtchupling" (in Tibetan pronunciation "Sheddubling", Tib. Bshad sgrub gling; "Place of study and realization"). On May 16, 1995, work began on the construction of the monastery at the indicated location. Temple "Shadchupling" is being built by the forces of Tenzin Dokshit and a small community of people who took his initial monastic vows. Material construction is provided by the community of his lay disciples living in the Middle Urals.
In 2001, in Kachkanar, students of Tenzin Dokshita registered a local religious organization as part of the Russian Diamond Way Association of the Karma Kagyu School. The question of the direct registration of the monastery as a reclusive center of the "Association" was also considered. The Association's orientation is towards predominantly mundane, non-monastic Buddhism.
How to get there by car:
on the highway Yekaterinburg - Kachkanar. In Kachkanar, along the main road, at the second traffic light (the Ploshchad stop complex will be on the right at the traffic light), turn left to st. Krylov. This is the road towards Valerianovsk. Drive to the large sign "Western quarry", turn left along it and go to the barrier before entering the territory of the quarry. Leave the car at the barrier and walk along the dumped road straight along the railway tracks, along which ore is taken out of the quarry on turntables.
We are born again every morning. And what we do today will be of the greatest importance.
Siddhartha Gautama
I continue my story about interesting people. Yes, the story will mainly be about the only mountain Buddhist monastery on the territory of Russia, but the monastery is the work of a specific person.
So, spring, Sverdlovsk region, Kachkanar, mountain of the same name.
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I found information about the monastery by chance while preparing a spring trip to the Urals. You can count on the fingers of a handful of sensible visit reports, mostly some articles about litigation with the Kachkanarsky GOK and rumors of an imminent demolition. So it was necessary to take hands in feet and go before it is too late.
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Mount Kachkanar stands next to the city of the same name, more precisely, the city is spread out at the foot of the mountain. The mountain is so-so, far from Elbrus, only 887.6 m. It was at this height that we had to go.
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The most difficult of the whole ascent was to pass the entrance of the GOK. The mountain turned out to be on the territory of the enterprise. I asked the guard if it was possible to go up the mountain, she replied that it was possible, but it was necessary to agree in the department, it was in the city, but they did not work today (Saturday), and this was not a quick matter. But since we have come from afar, she is simply obliged to tell us that their work is difficult, the territory is huge and it is simply impossible to keep track of everything. Here, at the barrier, she sees, and over there, behind the bushes, three meters away. They say there is a path, and further along the road, the main thing is not to get under BelAZ. Thanking the guard and loudly expressing our regret at the inaccessibility of the monastery due to bureaucratic delays, we went behind the bushes.
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Well, further along the excellent road we go up the hill. On the way, you can stop at a couple of observation decks, even climb onto lighting towers. The career is active, so there is something to look at and it is necessary to look both ways.
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A straight old road goes up the hill from the second observation deck, we follow it. Climbing, literally in an hour you cross several natural zones. It is necessary to take children here on excursions, it is rarely in such accessibility that you can so clearly show changes in nature.
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And in the end you go out into a small clearing. If you go straight, you will reach Camel Rock and a high-mountain lake.
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The lake is so-so. It will probably be more fun in summer, but in May there was still ice on it. Fishermen still sit on people of this thickness in the spring
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And to the right, simply fantatic (for the end of spring) deposits of snow begin, along which a chain of old tracks can be seen. We follow them. Step to the side and fall almost to the waist.
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A thick layer of snow underfoot, and streams murmur under the snow. You can hear them perfectly and you absolutely don't want to fall through them. A few hundred meters away, right in the forest, there is a large pile of boards and a sign in the style of "Traveler, throw your things away, leave your fatigue and help in the construction of the monastery." We helped, yes.
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The last dash on the kurumnik, we jump over the slippery stones and, behold, the monastery. To be honest, there were fears not to find him on the spot.
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The monastery is being built, from completely finished buildings, perhaps, only the stupa of Awakening. Through the gates, drums and an information board, we finally get inside.
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We are clearly glad
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No, actually happy. A man came out to the barking of dogs and led us inside, to dry ourselves after swimming in the snow and drink tea. "Drink tea" is perhaps the most frequently used phrase at the top.
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This concept does not include tea drinking itself, although it certainly will certainly be, but rather conversations and gatherings. This is the eastern option, it's Asia.
“Where are you from? And then where to look at the pictures? In LJ? Is he still alive ?! "
Soon they had a logbook shadtchupling
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Having warmed up, we go out on exploration. This is a stunningly beautiful place! I love mountains, even such small ones. There is something primitive in them, revealing the subconscious in a person.
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Long ago, the Mansi lived on these lands. They did not live on the mountain itself, but it was considered a place of power and was used to perform religious rites.
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When the Russians came to these places, they became interested in local deposits. According to rumors, Demidov himself wanted to redeem the entire mountain from the Mansi, but something did not grow together there.
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Then a platinum rush went through these places, but quickly ended. The GOK was founded in the late 50s of the last century, at the same time the city of Kachkanar was founded on the southern slope of the mountain.
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The idea to build the monastery came to its creator in 1995. The creator was Mikhail Vasilyevich Sannikov, a very interesting person. He was born into a military family, he himself commanded a sabotage and reconnaissance group in Afghanistan for several years.
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From the army, he was demobilized on disability with the rank of captain, worked as an orderly in a morgue, as a cook in the river fleet, as an external student he graduated from the Nizhny Tagil Art School.
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In the late 80s, at the age of 27, Mikhail decides to go to study at the Ivolginsky Datsan. He entered and took the monastic name Tenzin Dokshit. I went to Mongolia and after graduation I wanted to move there to live. But fate decreed otherwise.
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To be more precise, his teacher Pema Jang ordered otherwise. The young lama Dokshit was ordered to build a Buddhist datsan in the Urals. The logic is simple: in the east there are Buryat temples, in the west the St. Petersburg Gunzechoynei, in the south there are datsans of Kalmykia, and in the middle is empty. There are no Buddhist temples in the Urals. And in order to stand out completely, the temple must stand on the top of the mountain.
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We chose Kachkanar, a mountain on the border of Europe and Asia. As I said, this place has long been known as a place of power. And the name of the monastery was given Shad Tchup Ling - “the place of practice and realization” (or “The place of study and realization”, as you like). Construction began on May 15, 1995, and Tenzin Dokshit alone built the first years.
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The first buildings were almost entirely wooden, and a fire that happened in 1998 destroyed everything rebuilt. Lama and his few students had to start all over again.
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After walking on the mountain we drink tea again.
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Mikhail is an excellent conversationalist with a peculiar sense of humor. In general, if you talked with a Buddhist who was a military man, pathologist and river worker, and even with a good education and encyclopedic knowledge in various fields, then you will understand me
For some reason, I kept thinking of "The Golden Calf"
“- Have you read about the conference on disarmament? - one pique vest addressed to another pike vest. - Speech by Count Bernstorf.
- Bernstorf is the head! - answered the questioned vest in such a tone as if he was convinced of this on the basis of his many years of acquaintance with the count. “Have you read the speech Snowden made at a meeting of voters in Birmingham, this stronghold of the Conservatives?”
- Well, what to talk about ... Snowden is the head! Listen, Valiadis, ”he said to the third old man in Panama. - What do you say about Snowden?
“I’ll tell you frankly,” answered the Panama, “don’t put a finger in Snowden’s mouth.” I personally would not put my finger down.
And, not in the least embarrassed that Snowden would never have allowed Valiadis to get a finger in his mouth, the old man continued:
- But whatever you say, I'll tell you frankly, Chamberlain is still a head.
Pike vests raised their shoulders. They did not deny that Chamberlain was also a head. But most of all, Briand comforted them.
- Brian! - they said with ardor. "This is the head!"
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No, in fact, I was ready to listen to Mikhail Vasilyevich all day, or even two. He told why smoking filter cigarettes is more harmful than just cigarettes, how pipe tobacco differs from cigarette tobacco (he loves to smoke), the story of the Russians coming to these lands and what happened before that, how ore is mined and why Kochkanar GOK wants to evict them from here and much more.
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I learned a bunch of new information, but I never got an answer to my questions about the plans of the monastery, where the money for the construction came from, and why there are no documents for the land. With Buddhist directness, the lama replied to me that we are what we think; that the monastery is not the main thing, the main thing is the process; and money is like with food: if it is taken internally according to the needs of the body, then the food becomes food, and since the body is alive, it means there is food. Great tax answer, you can use
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After tea and conversations, a break for work. On that day, they made a shed-shed for all kinds of household needs.
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The people here are handy, and whether you like it or not, you will inevitably learn to work with your hands. All sorts of mechanisms were collected around and used in the economy. Just like that, no one will drag such weights up the mountain.
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A couple of years ago, there were fewer problems with the delivery of building materials, food, and indeed with movement. From the GOK there was a pass to the passage and passage, the car could reach that site with a pointer to Camel.
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Since then, the plant's policy has changed dramatically, and even on foot the monks pass the checkpoint illegally. There is also a path on the north side of the mountain, but it is only suitable for transporting anything in winter.
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Then, with the help of dogs or a snowmobile, the building material is thrown in. By and large, there are two seasons in the monastery: winter is the time for the delivery of building materials and study, summer is the time for construction and study.
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Upstairs there is no electricity, running water or steam heating. No official permits, no documents. One on one with the outside world.
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The territory of the monastery, in fact, like the entire mountain with all the lakes, Camels, a monument to Gagarin and a lot of hiking trails, Kachkanarsky GOK wants to be completely closed. The basin is expanding, the development of a new field is being started, and there is a risk that the mountain could collapse from explosions.
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Shad Tchup Ling is the only mountain Buddhist monastery in Russia, the Kachkanarsky GOK develops the only vanadium deposit in Russia. It's hard to argue with the money, the plant produces 55 million tons of iron ore per year.
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In addition to the monastery, we can also lose a mountain, as happened with one of the Sterlitamak shikhans. In 2015, the GOK intends to launch production at a new field at the very foot of the mountain.
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One of the main tenets of Buddhism is that everything in this world is changeable and impermanent.
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But back to the monastery. We went there for a couple of hours, in the end we stayed for a bathhouse, dinner and an overnight stay. Where does that come from on this stone peak?
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Although May is in the yard, the schedule is still winter. Studying, hiking for stable materials, tea. No one stands over the students with a stick, just if you come here, then you want to study, and in order to survive you have to do the housework.
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This should be the monastery at the end of the construction. Dogs are the main help in transporting building materials. The guys say that they were tormented with them until they understood what to do so that they would drag the sled in the right direction. Well, the dogs seem to have understood what they want from them. But all the same, there are times when the whole bundle breaks to the side and flees wherever they look, taking the sled with it.
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Michael says that the level of students is different. Someone with a higher education, but someone needs to pull up the school course. Books in the library for every taste, that's for sure.
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According to the schedule, from among the monks are appointed household attendants, an outfit for a construction site, someone leaves for the city on business or for food. In general, like in the army.
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In the subsidiary farm, chickens, goats, cows, dogs. Everyone should be fed, everyone should be removed.
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Some are also milked.
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This is a vegetable garden. They say they even grow something. Mikhail graduated from the Perm Agricultural Institute in a year and probably knows some secrets of how to grow potatoes on stones. As I say, he is a very interesting and versatile person.
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There is no electricity, light from a kerosene stove, but there is LED lighting powered by a car battery. A laptop also works from it, and the battery is charged during the day, when the gas generator starts up for work.
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Local water, rain. It is collected in a natural reservoir and taken as needed. In winter, it all freezes to the bottom and you have to melt the ice and snow.
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As the lama says, it is not the first year that they drink, the hoof-horns are not branches, so everything is fine. It was difficult in dry years. It was summer when there was no rain for several months and we sat without water.
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This is how this unique place lives. It is clear that not everything is legal, it is clear that outwardly it looks more like a labor community, but I would very much like the GOK to find an opportunity to leave the monastery and the mountain alone.
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We wish the monks good luck and fortitude. As far as I know, now, six months later, their situation has not changed.
Mount Kachkanar is one of the highest peaks of the Urals - 887.6 m. It houses the only Buddhist monastery in the Urals, Shad Tchup Ling. There are also some pretty rocks there, the most famous of which is “Camel”.
The path to the monastery is described in detail on its website and VKontakte group (links at the end of the post). In short, from the city you need to get to the checkpoint of the Western quarry. From there it is 8 kilometers uphill, the climb is about 550m. The road is wide, rocky, up to the main landmark - a tree with ribbons. From there, a steeper ascent along a slushy path begins. But how beautiful this path is! Just a fairy tale! Mixed forest, stones overgrown with moss and lingonberries, air, as they say, even eat with a spoon!
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04) A couple of meters away from the path in a few seconds I scored a handful of delicious lingonberries
I got to the monastery at 21 o'clock, at sunset.
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I was warmly greeted, offered to wash in a bathhouse, treated to tea and homemade cake.
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The main room where the inhabitants of the monastery spend their time is the dining room, where they eat, receive guests, and sleep.
I really liked the calm atmosphere that reigned in the monastery: everyone is sitting on the floor, drinking tea, someone is reading, someone is just sitting, everyone is talking little and quietly.
When the lights out came on schedule, we cleared the tables, unfolded the sleeping bags and went to bed. I spent the whole next day at the monastery.
Reference:
Buddhist monastery Shad Tchup Ling (Tib. "Place of Practice and Realization") was founded by Mikhail Vasilyevich Sannikov, born in 1961. After serving in Afghanistan, he studied at the Buddhist Institute at (Buryatia), practiced at datsans in Mongolia and Tuva. Then he received initiation into a lama and on May 15, 1995 arrived on Mount Kachkanar to start building a monastery, the exact location of which was indicated to him by his teacher Pema Jang (Darma Dodi Zhalsaraev, 1904-1997). For the first two years, Lama Sanye Tenzin Dokshit erected the walls of the monastery alone: for this he burned fires between the rocks, with a crowbar and a sledgehammer he broke stones and clay - the main building material. Over time, volunteers began to join the construction, and now there are several permanent residents in the monastery, there are already quite a few buildings on the territory, there is water (from the reservoirs located above), electricity (generator + solar panels) and gas. But there is still a lot of work - after all, the construction plan is designed for 300 years.
Many tourists come to the monastery - some just to take a look, and some - to take part in the construction.
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In the morning I got up at 7, for breakfast there was buckwheat with vegetables. Before a meal, prayer, then each of his plate transfers a little to an iron bowl, passed in a circle. At first I thought it was some kind of religious ritual, but it turned out that everyone throws off like that to feed the small affectionate kitty that lives here, which constantly climbs on you and hums as soon as it sees that you are sitting down or lying down. Also, several dogs of the same breed live in a separate enclosure.
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After breakfast, Lama Dokshit assigned duties for the day's work. At first we carried sandbags in the company of Batista the dog. Then Dima and I, who has been living here for more than 5 years, laid the roof on the roof of the enclosure, where the dog Nastya was fussing right below us and her puppies squeaked. The weather was constantly changing: when it was raining or hailting, we took a break for tea.
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After lunch, I climbed higher up the mountain to look at the rocks.
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Afterwards, I must admit, I disdained the mountains below 1500m. But in the Urals, I realized that the height does not matter at all. Stunning views, huge rocks dotted with millennial wrinkles, dense vegetation ... Here I fell head over heels in love with the Ural Mountains.
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Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to enjoy my loneliness. in the afternoon, a loud-voiced shkolota climbed the mountain.
In the evening we poked at the rocks and then putty the Parinirvana Stupa. Before dinner, we went to the bathhouse, where we steamed ourselves well with a fir broom.
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In the morning, after breakfast, Lama Dokshit gave me a lift to Kachkanar on an ATV.
In general, this can be called a monastery for the time being conditionally - the bulk of the inhabitants are practicing laymen, not monks. Nevertheless, it is a very pleasant place, I rested my soul. If possible, I will definitely come here for a longer period.
Here are some links
