Telo Tulku Rinpoche, the Representative of HH the Dalai Lama in Russia, Mongolia and Commonwealth of Independent States countries [former Soviet Bloc countries] has opened the first international scientific conference Buddhist civilisation and spiritual heritage of the peoples of Eurasia. The three-day conference is underway in the Central Monastery of Kalmykia “Golden abode of Buddha Shakyamuni” in Kalmykia in southern Russia.