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Kanur is from the Baga-Chonos clan. His father was the famous Kalmyk monk and healer Maani bagshi (his secular name was Kheeche Baburkievich Baburkiev). At the age of six, Maani bagshi was sent to a local temple and the next year was sent to Mongolia to pursue a religious education. From Mongolia he was sent to Tibet where he spent around 20 years studying Buddhism and medicine. According to Kanur, upon his return to Kalmykia, Maani bagshi served as the head of several temples. When the Soviets came to power, he left the temple he was then head of and married Kanur’s mother. He practiced medicine at home. In 1931 Maani bagshi was arrested and spent four months in prison in Saratov. In prison he cured a sick person who, it turned out, was a close friend of Mikhail Kalinin, a well-known Bolshevik revolutionary. A grateful Kalinin provided Maani bagshi with a document saying that his healing methods did not contradict Soviet medicine. Maani bagshi had many patients, both young and old, Ka
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