Culture &amp; community

ArigUs

The regional television channel ArigUs (Ulan-Ude), with material on Buryat culture and the Shenehen Buryats.

asiarussia.ru

The ARD news portal for Buryatia/Mongolia/Inner Asia, featuring articles on the Shenehen Buryats and Buryats of Mongolia.

BDRC / Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)

The world's largest open archive of Buddhist texts (over 28 million pages), containing Buryat materials: woodblock prints from the Lokesh Chandra collection and records of Buryat monasteries; a key source for the Buddhist heritage section.

BDRC Library (search)

The BDRC library search interface for navigating Buddhist texts, including Buryat materials; complements the main portal bdrc.io as a specific search tool.

LibraryOpen access

British Library EAP1034: Preserving Traditional Buryat Book Culture

A British Library project, «Preserving Traditional Buryat Book Culture» — the preservation of traditional Buryat book culture; a key English-language archival node for book/Buddhist heritage.

British Library EAP813

A British Library Endangered Archives Programme project for preserving Buryat book heritage; materials are being prepared for publication in conjunction with BDRC — an important Western source of digitisation.

Buddhist Canon in Electronic Space (tibcanon.imbtarchive.ru)

A project for the electronic Tibetan Buddhist canon by the IMBT SB RAS (RSF-grant 24-28-00275); the Tibetan fund contains texts by Buryat authors and Datsan printing houses — a direct link between Buddhist heritage and Buryat culture.

Buryad FM

The first 24-hour radio station in the Buryat language in Russia (since 2016), featuring online broadcasting, satellite, and an app; for an aggregator, it serves as a primary live audio source in Buryat.

Buryad TV

The first 24-hour television channel broadcasting predominantly in the Buryat language (since 2021), which has also been broadcasting in the Irkutsk region since 2024; includes educational and linguistic programming, also available on YouTube.

Buryad ünen

A newspaper in the Buryat language; a print and digital publication, useful as a source of modern language and news regarding the republic's cultural life.

Media, Buddhism & communityPartial access

Buryat Wikipedia (bxr.wikipedia.org)

The Buryat-language edition of Wikipedia (2,916 articles as of June 2026, with one active administrator); small and relatively inactive, but an open, continuously available layer of content — a priority for volunteer support from the project.

EncyclopediaOpen access

Media, Buddhism & communityPartial access

buryatia.org

An old «website of the Buryat people» containing a catalogue of applications and links; less current than zugaa.ru, but complements the list of existing (imperfect) aggregation attempts.

AggregatorOpen access

CVRK IMBT SB RAS (Centre for Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs)

One of the largest collections of Oriental manuscripts and xylographs in the world, including texts by Buryat authors and Datsan printing houses; the leading organisation for academic Buryatology and Buddhology.

Földgömb — «Burjátia» (2019)

A Hungarian travelogue with a section on the endangered status of the Buryat language (UNESCO classification).

Media, Buddhism & communityNeeds recheck

Folkways Today (SRAS)

The English-language SRAS cultural portal regarding the peoples of Russia, including a Buryat section; the closest analogue to an English-language cultural resource, though Buryat content has not been updated since 2018.

imbtarchive.ru

The electronic archive of IMBT SB RAS, related to the TsVRK; an entry point to digitised Oriental manuscripts and woodblock prints, including the Buddhist canon (tibcanon.imbtarchive.ru).

Kylväjä — «Burjatia» programme page

A page for the Finnish missionary programme among Buryats (Ulan-Ude) — providing context to the news regarding the Bible translation.

CommunityOpen access

Kylväjä — «Itä-Siperian burjaatit saivat oman Raamatun» (2024)

News from a Finnish mission regarding the completion of a 33-year translation of the Bible into Buryat (the 758th complete Bible in the world) — a narrow but verifiable fact.

Official EN-page of the Government of Buryatia (egov-buryatia.ru/eng)

The official English-language showcase of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia; useful as a basic reference point for English-speaking users, though content-wise it is more of a presentation than a deep resource.

ReferenceOpen access

Pismo Folkowe — «Buriaci»

A Polish essay on the Buryats, featuring a description of the rare cassette «Pieśni Szamanek z Buriacji» [Songs of Shamanesses from Buryatia] (1994).

soyol.ru

A portal on the culture of Buryatia with a full Buryat interface and audiobooks; a publishing project supported by the Ministry of Culture and the National Library, serving as an accessible cultural entry point for readers without deep academic training.