我拿着手中的开往伏尔加格勒的车票发呆。想要去的目的地并不是伏尔加河,而是里海和黑海之间,广袤草原中的卡尔梅克共和国。那是地理意义上的欧洲唯一的佛之国度,居住在那里的,是几百年前由遥远的西伯利亚迁移而来的厄拉特蒙古之土尔扈特部及杜尔伯特部。在大清国的盛世,他们当中的一部分人无法忍受俄国和奥斯曼土耳其的双重挤压,千里迢迢地 I took a daze ticket to Volgograd in my hand. The destination you want to go is not the Volga, but the Kalmykia in the vast meadows between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. It is geographically the only European land of Buddhism inhabited by the Torghut and Durburtian tribes in Elat Mongolia that were migrated from distant Siberia hundreds of years ago. In the prosperity of the Qing dynasty, some of them could not stand the double squeeze of Russia and Ottoman Turkey