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Question 1: With the discovery of Buddhist manuscripts in ________ at the beginning of the 20th Century, a new stage in the study of Buddhism began.
Central AsiaSouth AsiaMiddle EastSiberia

Question 2: Regarding the décor, it is perhaps also of interest that there was a swastika motif which the ________ knocked out during the Second World War.
BolshevikMenshevikRussian Social Democratic Labour PartyVladimir Lenin

Question 3: Toporov published a translation of ________, becoming the 31st volume, and A.I.
DhammapadaBuddhismAnguttara NikayaDigha Nikaya

Question 4: This movement is all the more noteworthy because no comparable developments took place in Tibetan Buddhism until after the confrontation with ________ in 1949.
Communist Party of ChinaMao ZedongKuomintangDeng Xiaoping

Question 5: In St. Petersburg, scholars are mainly engaged in deciphering ancient Indian inscriptions and textological research in the field of ________ and old Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Chinese texts and treatises.
Greco-BuddhismBuddhist artBuddhismTibetan art

Question 6: Afterwards, it began to spread into the geographically and culturally adjacent Russian constituent regions known today as: ________, Buryatia, Chita Oblast, Tuva Republic, and Khabarovsk Krai.
Primorsky KraiSakha RepublicAmur OblastJewish Autonomous Oblast

Question 7: Mongolian and Tibetan lamas first appeared on the eastern shores of ________ in the middle of the 17th century and quickly spread Buddhism in the area.
Lake BaikalRussiaYenisei RiverIrkutsk

Question 8: The ________ were, and are still are the largest Buddhist population in Russia.
OiratsEvenksKalmyk peopleBuryats

Question 9: Buddhism appeared in the territories of modern ________ as early as the late 16th century, when early Russian explorers travelled to and settled in Siberia and what is now the Russian Far East.
MoscowRussian cultureRussiaUnited States

Question 10: The Russian Federation and ________ are the only two European states today that recognize Buddhism as an "official", though not necessarily "state religion" in their respective countries.
PolandCzech RepublicHungaryAustria
















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