Kalmyks

These were the Torgut (later known as the Kalmyks), the Choros (later known as the Dzungars), the Dorbot, and the Khoshut (Qoshot).

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 4 The Pagmodru, Rinpung, and Tsangpa Hegemonies 2009

The Kalmyks are a Western Mongol people who migrated to the Volga Region of European Russia in the seventeenth century.

Kalachakra, Tantra, and Their Relation with World Peace 2002

Similar deportations happened for other ethnic groups, including North Caucasian Muslim ethnic groups, Kalmyks and Crimean Tatars.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010

Similar deportations happened for other ethnic groups, including North Caucasian Muslim ethnic groups, Kalmyks and Crimean Tatars.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010

The Buddhists 'political heavyweight is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the superrich and eccentric president of the desert republic of Kalmykia, whose people, the Kalmyks, have been Buddhist since their conquest by the Mongols.

Prayers Vs. Realpolitik 2007

The Kalmyks also had tent monasteries in many parts of Kazakhstan as they migrated across it to the Volga.

Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in West Turkistan 2006

The Dzungar Mongols [6] of East Turkistan, who followed the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and from whom the Kalmyks broke away at the beginning of the seventeenth century, had tent monasteries in the Semirechiya region of eastern Kazakhstan, to the east and south of Lake Balkhash, during the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, and around Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century.

Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in West Turkistan 2006

Rinpoche described the award as a testimony to the close ties Tibetans Kalmyks have enjoyed since ancient times and said it will serve as a source of immense encouragement to the Tibetans in and outside Tibet.

Dalai Lama Receives the White Lotus Order 2006

Some of them might also have been built by the Kalmyks who returned from the Volga to East Turkistan at the end of the eighteenth century, but who settled in Kazakhstan.

Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in West Turkistan 2006

The question is confusing since in Russian, the Dzungars are commonly referred to also as Kalmyks.

Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in West Turkistan 2006