EVOLUTION MYSTERY TSAM IN THE THEATRICALIZED ACTION
Mystery Tsam in Buryatia - the unique theatricalized action with participation of masks “kindly” and “angry” deities of a lamaist pantheon. The main attention is paid the classical option of the well-known buddhist mystery namely that part of a mystery which was played out of the temple and has been designed for wide spectator audience. On the basis of the modern videos including made by the author of article conclusions about changes in public mystery action and about the reasons of such changes at the level the number of character, a costume, a ratio of the serious religious beginning with entertainment, comical, stretching in the traditional culture of the buryats.