Audrius Beinorius (born September 28, 1964) is a Lithuanian 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 of ...

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 Budd ...

and Comparative Studies), translator,

Habilitated Doctor of Humane Letters Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

. 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 (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...

Pali Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist '' Pāli Canon'' or '' Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of '' Theravāda'' Bud ...

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 ...

, 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 gr ...

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comm ...

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

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow an ...

. In 1998, he earned a

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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 refers to philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent. A traditional Hindu classification divides āstika and nāstika schools of philosophy, depending on one of three alternate criteria: whether it believes the Veda ...

, Indian religious history (

Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...

and

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Indian religion or ''dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global po ...

), 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 religion established in the United States during the late 19th century. It was founded primarily by the Russian Helena Blavatsky and draws its teachings predominantly from Blavatsky's writings. Categorized by scholars of religion a ...

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 ( Pāli; sa, धर्मपद, Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka ...

'', 2005 (from Pali); *''Dhammacakkapavattana sutta'', 2005 (from Pali); *''

The Upanishads The Upanishads (; sa, उपनिषद् ) are late Vedic Sanskrit texts that supplied the basis of later Hindu philosophy.Wendy Doniger (1990), ''Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism'', 1st Edition, University of Chicago Press, , ...

'', 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