Galdanova Galina Rinchinovna
19 April 1942, Bayangol village, Zakamensky District, Buryat-Mongolian ASSR — 19 January 2001, Ulan-Ude
Biography, education, career:
On 28 July 1982 Galina Galdanova defended her Candidate Dissertation, titled Pre-Lamaistic Beliefs of Buryats of Transbaikal (Based on the Materials of Ethnographic Research of the 19th – 20th Centuries). In 1971‑1975 she was a junior researcher and in 1978‑2001 – a senior researcher at the Institute for Humanities Research of the Buryatia Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the BSC SB RAS.
Areas of expertise: Ethnic religious studies; Buddhist studies; early forms of beliefs; Lamaism, traditions and rituals of Buryats