Stock Photo - RUSSIA, IRKUTSK REGION - FEBRUARY 19, 2023: Buryat Buddhists take part in a purification ritual known as Dugzhuuba at Tubden Darzhaling Datsan in the Ust-Orda Buryat District on the eve of Sagaalgan (literally, White Month Festival, New Year's Day according to the Buddhist lunisolar calendar). Sagaalgan is celebrated by Buddhists in Buryatia, the Transbaikal Region and the Ust-Orda Buryat District of the Irkutsk Region in Russia's Far East. Yevgeny Konoplev/TASS.

Stock Photo: RUSSIA, IRKUTSK REGION - FEBRUARY 19, 2023: Buryat Buddhists take part in a purification ritual known as Dugzhuuba at Tubden Darzhaling Datsan in the Ust-Orda.