This article looks at the pre-Revolutionary history of Buryats' engagement with greater Eurasia, drawing on the legacies of the long underappreciated Russian Buddhological school and exploring the intellectual and political context of its emergence in the late nineteenth century. Exploring the role of Russian Orientalists and political figures such as the Orientalists V.P. Vasil'ev and Prince E.E. Ukhtomskii, and taking a close look at the fieldwork of the first Russian-trained indigenous Buryat Buddhologists G.Ts. Tsybikov and B.B. Baradiin, I demonstrate that this ultimately Eurasianist school of Buddhology was borne out of conflicting sentiments towards Russia's cosmopolitanism, statehood, and imperial destiny in Asia, as well as representations of indigenous peoples of southern Siberia. As a conclusion, I map the emergent forms of what I call 'Asian Eurasianism', linking it to contemporary cultural debates in Buryatia. I suggest that the term offers us a better way to understand the many ways by which many non-Russians position themselves in relation to the vast Eurasian continent.
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ABSTRACT 23 Keywords 23 RUSSIAN ORIENTALISM AND IDEOLOGIES OF EMPIRE 25 BURYAT BUDDHOLOGISTS IN TIBET 29 Gombozhab Tsybikov in Central Tibet 29 Bazar Baradiin in Eastern Tibet (Amdo) 31 NATIVE SCHOLARS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC AUTHORITY 34 BURYAT BUDDHOLOGISTS AND THE BUDDHIST REFORM MOVEMENT 35 TIBET AND CONTEMPORARY BURYAT CULTURAL POLITICS 36 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 41 NOTES 41 REFERENCES 42
