Mergen Ulanov, Why Did the Kalmyks Come to the Volga?
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Mergen says that there are oral stories saying that the Kalmyks came to the Volga in search of Maitreya Buddha, based on a prophecy that this Buddha would come from the west. Given in Buddhist cosmology the paradise of Devachan is in the west, according to Mergen, this hypothesis is plausible.
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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