Tatyana talks about the lama Jijaten (Zhizheten) was from the Dund Khurla Shebener clan. He is best known for his pilgrimage to Tibet where he stayed for 6 years and from where he brought sacred relics for the temples in his native place. Due to a quarrel with a local lord, the lama had to leave his native place and settle in what is today Iki-Burulovskiy rayon. Another lama that Tatyana mentions is Chimpel emchi, a doctor at the Cherya Temple. He was from the Taltakhn clan. After the Bolsheviks came to power, the lama left his stationary temple and lived in a nomadic temple on the steppe where he died. In the 1920s and 1930s the temples across Kalmykia were destroyed and lamas arrested. After disrobing, many lamas also served in the Red Army during World War II.