Professor Samdhong Rinpoche is in Ulan-Ude in Russia for the international conference of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, in the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Rinpoche’s talk, “Challenges Faced by Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Community in the Modern World”, was attended by prominent people including Kalmykia’s Lama Telo Rinpoche and Professor Robert Thurman, Columbia University.