RAS INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Eastern Philosophies UNESCO Chair “Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures”   4th Annual International Conference ASIAN PHILOSOPHIES: HISTORY, METHODOLOGY, INTERCULTURAL APPROACH   Moscow, 2026 2026.10.12–2026.10.15

 

Poster

Conference book (Poster + Programme + Abstracts) PDF

Programme

 

October 12^th

10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m., room 313

OPENING

 

Viktoria G. LYSENKO

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Chief Research Fellow, Head, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Opening remarks

 

10.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m., room 313

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (IN ENGLISH)

host – Maxim B. DEMCHENKO (PhD in Cultural Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Languages, Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia)

 

Muthulekshmi K.

PhD in Philosophy

Professor (Retd.)

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, India

Mirrors & Reflections: Philosophical Enquiries from India

 

Abhishek TRIPATHI

PhD Graduate

Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science

Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italia

A Buddhist Reading of Karma: Alterity and Conversation within Indian Philosophical Traditions

 

Stalin Joseph CORREYA

PhD in Philosophy

Post-doctoral Scholar, School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religions

Nālandā University, Rajgir, India

Reviewing Editor

Springer Nature

The Phenomenology of the Guilty Self in the Bodhicaryāvatāra

 

Maxim B. DEMCHENKO

PhD in Cultural Studies

Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Languages

Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

Śrīmadbhagavadgītā-tattva-vimarśa – selected aspects of a XX century's commentary on Bhagavadgītā by Swāmī Bhagavadācharya

 

Ivan E. TOLCHELNIKOV

Senior Specialist in Research and Technical Work, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Master's Student, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Śaṅkara the Yogin: Strategies of Interpreting the Yogasūtrabhāṣyavivaraṇa

 

2.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m., room 313

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (IN RUSSIAN)

host – Lev I. TITLIN (PhD in Philosophy; Senior Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Anastasiia S. MILYUTINA

Master's Student, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Senior Editor, Center for Interdisciplinary Research

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

The Teaching on Samāpatti and Dhyāna in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa

 

Andrei I. STAROVEROV

PhD Student, Department of the History of Foreign Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Two Truths in the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra

 

Daniil P. GONCHAROV

Master's Student, Faculty of Humanities

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

The Influence of the Jaina Concept of Causality on Nimbārka's Svābhāvika-bhedābhedavāda in Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha

 

Evgeniya A. DESNITSKAYA

PhD in Philosophy

Research Fellow, Section of South Asian Studies, Department of Central Asian and South Asian Studies

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Verses of Doubtful Authorship in the First Kāṇḍa of the Vākyapadīya

 

Ariunaa SHAJINBAT

D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor

General Academic Secretary

Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Ganhkuyag SHAGDAR

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

Head, Department of Philosophy

Institute of Philosophy, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The Worldview of the Ancient Mongols: Mythological Images, Cosmology, and the Cosmographic Tradition

 

Tatiana V. ERMAKOVA

PhD in Philosophy

Leading Research Fellow, Department of Central Asian and South Asian Studies

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Th. Stcherbatsky about the Organization of Classical Indology in USSR

 

 

October 13^th

10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., room 313

INTERCULTURAL ROUNDTABLE “PROBLEMS OF OTHERNESS: THE ‘SELF’ AND THE ‘OTHER’ IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES” (IN ENGLISH)

host – Viktoria G. LYSENKO (D. Sc. in Philosophy; Chief Research Fellow, Head, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Pradeep P. GOKHALE

PhD in Philosophy

Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies

Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Brahmavihāra: The Buddhist Approach to the Other

 

Sashka TRAJCHESKA-SEKULOSKA

Research Fellow

Sanskrit Research Institute, Auroville, India

Beyond Duality: Reconstructing the Philosophical Problem of the Self and the Other through Sri Aurobindo's Integral Ontology

 

Hans-Georg MOELLER

PhD in Sinology, Philosophy and European Ethnology

Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

University of Macau, Macau, China

Identity Technologies: Sincerity, Authenticity, Profilicity

 

12.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m., room 313

INTERCULTURAL ROUNDTABLE “PROBLEMS OF OTHERNESS: THE ‘SELF’ AND THE ‘OTHER’ IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES” (IN RUSSIAN)

host – Vlada S. BELIMOVA (PhD in Philosophy; Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Elena S. LEPEKHOVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Leading Research Fellow, Center “State and Religion in Asia”

Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

The Problems of Alterity: “Self” and “Other” in the Philosophical Tradition of Japanese Culture (Based on Seigo Matsuoka's “The Essence of Japanese Culture”)

 

Anna S. SHIMANSKAYA

PhD in Philosophy

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Professional Communication in Political Science, Institute of International Relations and Socio-Political Science

Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

Dichotomy as a Reflection of the Japanese Worldview

 

Lyubov B. CHETYROVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Professor, Department of Philosophy

Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia

Aleksandr V. LABAZIN

Assistant, Department of Philosophy

Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia

Andrey V. KHOKHLOV

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy

Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia

Interaction with the “Non-Human”: Robots through the Lens of Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy

 

Тatiana G. SKOROKHODOVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Professor, Department “Social Sciences and Humanities”

Penza State University, Penza, Russia

Understanding of Other: the Experience of the Bengal Renaissance Philosophy

 

3.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m., room 313

INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY

host – Vlada S. BELIMOVA (PhD in Philosophy; Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Natalia A. KANAEVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Professor, School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

The Goals and Methods of Comparing Buddhism with Christianity in the Works of V.A. Kozhevnikov and D.V. Gorokhov

 

Licheng ZHANG

PhD in Philology

Associate Professor, Russian Language Department, School of Foreign Languages

Southeast University, Nanjing, China

How Does the Conceptual Core of a Philosophy Take Shape in Another Academic Tradition? The Chinese Reception of N. A. Berdyaev

 

Ruzana V. PSKHU

D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor

Head, Department of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia

On a Peculiarity of the Indian Type of Rationality

 

Oleg S. KOCHEROV

PhD in Political Sciences

Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science

State Academic University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Political Ontology of Dark Souls through the Lens of Confucian and Daoist Xenology and Intercultural Philosophy

 

Pavel A. ZAITSEV

PhD Student, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Boston Confucianism as a Philosophical Project

 

 

October 14^th

10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m., room 313

JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY

host – Lyubov B. KARELOVA (PhD in Philosophy; Senior Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Vladlena A. FEDIANINA

PhD in History

Associate Professor, Head, Department of Japanese Language

Moscow City University, Moscow, Russia

Waka Poetry as a Means of Transmitting the Ideas of the “Lotus Sutra” in Medieval Japan

 

Ken’ichi MAEGAWA

Professor, Graduate School of Letters

Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

Absolute Nothingness and Absolute Emptiness: Two Kinds of Ontological Structure in the Kyoto School

 

Vsevolod A. SEVOSTIANOV

PhD Student, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Nishida Kitarō’s Concepts of “Place” and “Active Intuition” as the Foundations of Scientific Cognition

 

Lyubov B. KARELOVA

PhD in Philosophy

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Theory of Time Images by Maki Yusuke (Mita Munesuke)

 

Elena L. SKVORTSOVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Leading Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Onishi Yoshinori – a Stranger among His Own

 

Maxim A. LANTSETOV

Laboratory Assistant, Master's Student, Research Center for Religious and Ethnopolitical Studies

Pushkin Leningrad State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Question Concerning Technology in Japan: Miki Kiyoshi's Philosophy in the Context of Contemporary Discussions on Technology

 

Anton V. TERENTYEV

Master's Student, Master’s Programme “Philosophical Studies”

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

Perception Without Representation: Tati-araware and the Overcoming of Dualism in the Philosophy of Ōmori Shōzō

 

Anastasia S. BORISOVA

PhD in Philology

Senior Lecturer, Department of Japanese Philology

Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Buddhist Philosophy in Literary Works and Essays of the Japanese Author Sakaguchi Ango (1906–1955)

 

3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m., room 313

BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

host – Sergey Yu. LEPEKHOV (D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor; Chief Research Fellow, Center “State and Religion in Asia”, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Regina V. PENNER

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities

South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Yuri A. SPIRIDONOV

Independent Researcher

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Sophia V. TIKHONOVA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Professor, Department of Theoretical and Social Philosophy

Saratov Chernyshevsky State University, Saratov, Russia

What Must Exist for a Machine to Become a Subject? Doctrinal Models of Consciousness in Buddhist Philosophy

 

Lev I. TITLIN

PhD in Philosophy

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Was the Pudgalavāda Discourse Ontological?

 

Stepan A. MURASHOV

Master's Student, Center for the Study of Religions

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Study Guides on the Abhidharmakośa in Contemporary China

 

Sergey Yu. LEPEKHOV

D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor

Chief Research Fellow, Center “State and Religion in Asia”

Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Constructive Positions of Buddhism in a Multi-Confessional Society

 

Ivan S. USENKO

Student, Educational Program “Philosophy”

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

The Concept of Dependent Designation (Prajñaptirupādāya) in Chandrakirti's Madhyamakāvatāra

 

 

October 15^th

10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m., room 502

CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (MORNING SESSION)

host – Stanislav Yu. RYKOV (PhD in Philosophy; Senior Research Fellow, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Artem I. KOBZEV

D. Sc. in Philosophy, Professor

Head, Department of China

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Director, Educational and scientific center “Philosophy of the East”

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Lao Tzu and Taoist Motifs in the Poetry of the Great Chinese Poet Bo/Bai Juyi

 

Vladimir V. MALIAVIN

D. Sc. in History

Research Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

Chief Research Fellow, Center “State and Religion in Asia”

Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Chinese Epistemology in Its Social and Historical Dimensions

 

Alexander V. LOMANOV

D. Sc. in History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director, Head, Center for Asia Pacific Studies

Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

The Course Toward Combining Marxism with Tradition in the Context of the Development of Philosophy in the PRC

 

Andrei V. GORDIENKO

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia

The “Yangist Chapters” of Lüshi Chunqiu: Different Ways to Preserve a Sheng 生 “[Healthy] Life”

 

Aglaya B. STAROSTINA

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Asian literature

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

“Horse’s Hooves” in the Interpretations of Guo Xiang and Ge Hong

 

Alexey R. FOKIN

D. Sc. in Philosophy

Leading Research Fellow, Department of the Philosophy of Religion

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

On the History of Daoist Studies in Russia: Key Approaches and Arguments on the Problem of the Relationship between Philosophical and Religious Daoism

 

3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m., room 502

CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (EVENING SESSION)

host – Valeria D. TERYAEVA (PhD Student, Faculty of Philosophy, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; Senior Specialist in Research and Technical Work, Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Research Assistant, Center for Prospective Research, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

 

Nikolay V. RUDENKO

PhD in Philosophy

Senior Research Fellow, Department of China

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Prospective Research

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Party Building on the Foundation of Classics: Confucian Ideas in the Early Speeches of Chairman Xi

 

Alexey A. SHUNKOV

Master's Student, Faculty of Philosophy

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Research Assistant, Department of China

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Center for Prospective Research

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Ontology and Epistemology of the Third Generation of New Confucianism

 

Nikolay O. ELIZAROV

Research Assistant, Department of China

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Research Assistant, Center for Prospective Research

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

“Chosen Nation” and “Moral Decline”: The Interplay of Biblical and Neo-Confucian Models in Hong Xiuquan's Philosophy of History

 

Viktoria V. SUKHOMLINOVA

PhD in Philosophy

Independent Researcher

Reading, Remembering, Interpreting: Textual Memorization as a Method of Confucian Philosophy

 

Valeria D. TERYAEVA

PhD Student, Faculty of Philosophy

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Senior Specialist in Research and Technical Work, Department of Eastern Philosophies

Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Research Assistant, Center for Prospective Research

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

The Image of Ideal State and Society in the Wenzi