There is considered the moral education in modern conditions. There are revealed the main approaches to studying a family as the institution of personality establishment on the basis of the values of national education. There is analyzed the essence and contents of some aspects of family education of the Kalmyk.

There are revealed the psychological and pedagogical ideas of Buddhism and their possible use in learning and educational work, in formation of a spiritual and moral personality. There are regarded the methods and methodology of the Buddhist experience, which influence positively on the psychic and emotional and physical state of a person, favour the efficiency of work, improving moral health, avoiding stresses.