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Buryatya (Russian Federation)

by zeljko heimer

See also:Russian Federation

Buryat people live in Siberia, near Mongolia; they are Buddhist, like Kalmykian.
On 29 October 1992 they adopted a State flag, a 2:1:1 light blue - white - yellow horizontal stripped one. At 1/4 from the left border there is a yellow Mongol device composed of the same objects (the fire, the sun, the moon) that are on the top of the Soyombo, the symbol of Mongol Republic. The Soyombo (a sanskrit-derived word meaning "a self-explainig writing") was in origin an endmark for lamaistic writings of XVII century. It became very popular. The thrre object represent three of the four cosmological elements (the fire for heavens or ether, the sun, the moon for the air) and they are also present in Indian stupa.

giuseppe bottasini