Dashi Namdakov

Dashi Namdakov is talented artist who uses his classical training in the traditions of the Russian School of Sculpture to create unique works that are steeped in the spirit of Buddism, or rather Lamanism (a religion practiced in Tibet, Mongolia, and Buryatia). His images and themes owe much to the mythological traditions of shamanism, the beliefs of the Turkic peoples of Siberia and the epic songs, the fairytales of the Buryats, and to the arts of ancient China and Japan. However, It would be incorrect to style Namdakov as a Buddist artist. His works are products of the fertile and subtle imagination of someone who is still at one with his own people, their culture and beliefs, their homeland in the taiga and on the shores of the great Lake Baikal.