Audrius Beinorius (born September 28, 1964) is a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n philosopher, orientalist (specialist of

Indology Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is ...

Buddhist studies Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Bud ...

and Comparative Studies), translator,

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. In 1988, he finished landscape management studies at the Academy of Agriculture. Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages (

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

Pali Pāli (, IAST: pāl̤i) is a Classical languages of India, classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages, Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pali Canon, Pāli Can ...

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

, at the

Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC) in Kolkata, India, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission founded on 29 January 1938 as an outcome of the commemoration of Sri Ramakrishna's Birth Centenary Celebrations, the institute has gro ...

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

. In 1996, Beinorius become a lecturer at the Center of Orientalist Studies at

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...

. In 1998, he earned a

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of Postgraduate education, graduate study and original resear ...

degree from Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy. He became a docent, Assoc. Prof. in 2000 and a

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in 2007. 2004-2014 A. Beinorius was the director of the Center of Oriental Studies at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He has been doing the research work in Great Britain (Oriental Institute, Oxford, 2000), the Netherlands (Leiden, International Institute for Asian Studies, IIAS, in 2004–2005), France (Sorbonne, 2012), Brown University (US, Fulbright scholar in 2008–2009), Japan (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, under ''Japan Foundation Scholarship'', 2008), in India (RM Institute of Culture (Kolkata), Sarnath Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, JNU Institute of Advanced Studies, New Delhi 2013–1014), Institute of South Asian Studies at Heidelberg University (2015). Has been lecturing at La Sapienza University (Rome), University of Iceland (Reykjavik), University of Malta, University of Ghent, Calcutta University, DevSanskriti Vishvavidyalaya, Haridwar. 2018-2020 - Professor of Asian religions at Tartu University, Estonia. The main scientific fields of prof. A. Beinorius are: the Perception of Indian culture in the West,

Indian philosophy Indian philosophy consists of philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent. The philosophies are often called darśana meaning, "to see" or "looking at." Ānvīkṣikī means “critical inquiry” or “investigation." Unlike darśan ...

, Indian religious history (

Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

and

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Hypernymy and hyponymy, umbrella term for a range of Indian religions, Indian List of religions and spiritual traditions#Indian religions, religious and spiritual traditions (Sampradaya, ''sampradaya''s) that are unified ...

), Indian astrology and cosmology, Cultural Psychology, Postcolonial Studies, Methodologies of Comparative Religion Studies, Classical Indian psychology, Western Esoteric Movements in India (

Theosophy Theosophy is a religious movement established in the United States in the late 19th century. Founded primarily by the Russian Helena Blavatsky and based largely on her writings, it draws heavily from both older European philosophies such as Neop ...

and Freemasonry). 2010-2018 - a founder and director of Confucius Institute (CI) at Vilnius University. 2000-2015 - Editor-in-chief of academic journa
Acta Orientalia Vilnensia
Beinorius has written more than 80 scientific papers in English, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian, has published three monographs, two teaching tools, made many translations from Sanskrit, Pali, Russian, English, French, German.

Publications

Books: *''The Consciousness in Classical Indian Philosophy'', 2002 (Lithuanian) *''Imagining Otherness: Postcolonial Perspective to Indian Religious Culture'', 2007 (English) *''India and the West: Layers of Cultural Interaction'', 2012 (Lithuanian) *''Development of Indian Buddhism'', 2010 (Lithuanian) *''Introduction to Indian and Buddhist Studies'', 2003 (Lithuanian) Besides many other, the most significant his translations into Lithuanian are: *''

Dhammapada The ''Dhammapada'' (; ) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.See, for instance, Buswell (2003): "rank among the best known Buddhist texts" (p. 11); and, "on ...

'', 2005 (from Pali); *''Dhammacakkapavattana sutta'', 2005 (from Pali); *'' The Upanishads'', 2007 and 2013 (from Sanskrit); *''Mandūkya Upanishada Gaudapada Karika''; *''Patanjali's Yoga sūtra'', 2000; *Fragments from ''Pali Tipitaka'', Šantideva's ''Bodhicharyavatara'', Abhinavagupta's ''Paramarthasara'', ''Manavadharmashastra'', ''Natyašastra'', ''Vishnudharmotara Purana'', Vatsyayana's ''Kamasūtra'', Nagarjuna's ''Mūlamadhyamaka Karika'', ''Brahmasūtra Shankara Bhashya'', and other.

References

20th-century Lithuanian philosophers Lithuanian translators 1964 births Indologists Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy alumni Academic staff of Vilnius University Living people 21st-century Lithuanian philosophers {{Lithuania-translator-stub