The first Nyingma movement , Estonian Buddhist Brotherhood, was established by Vello Väärtnõu in 1982,  in Tallinn. They were also well-known in Estonia and Russia by the nickname Taola. Väärtnõu had an idea to establish the Nyingma tradition and Buddhist brotherhood in Estonia already in the 1970s. During that time Väärtnõu made contacts with Ivolga monastery in Buryat, which belonged to the Gelug sect, because Nyingma school did not exist in the territory of the Soviet Union. The only way to approach Buddhism was thro ...