Danara Ungarlinova, About Shajin Lama Lubsan-Sharap Tepkin and His Clan
Journal: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
Year: 2018

Danara talks about Lubsan-Sharap Tepkin who was Shajin Lama (Head Lama) of Kalmykia: He was born in 1875 to the Domdon Tepkin family in Denisovskaya village. His father ran his stud farm. The family had 3 sons, Kaplyuk, Erdne, Lubsan-Sharap and a daughter, Adyakush. Lubsan-Sharap received secular education in a parish school. He also studied in the Denisovskiy khurul (temple), which since 1873 had been headed by Menke Bormanzhinov. In 1902, when Menke Bormanzhinov was elected Bagsh Lama of the D