Viktoria Lysenko

Year and Place of Birth

Born in 1953, Przhevalsk, Kyrgyzstan.

Education

• Graduated from Department of Philosophy of Moscow State University in 1976.
• 1976–1979 – Postgraduate education in the Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. in Philosophy (1982). Ph.D. Thesis: "Philosophy of Nature in India. The Vaisheshika Atomism", Moscow, 1982.
• D.Sc. in Philosophy (1998). D.Sc. Thesis: "Continuity and Discontinuity in Indian Thought: Vaisheshika and Grammatical Philosophy", Moscow 1998.

Field of Studies

• History of Indian philosophy.
• Indian atomism.
• Early Buddhism.
• Epistemology in Buddhist-Brahminical thought.
• Ccomparative philosophy.
• Intercultural philosophy.

• Head of the Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences since 2012;
• Leading Research Fellow at the Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences;
• Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences;
• Professor at the Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow.
• Visiting professor: UGC (Delhi, Benares, Pune), 2005; Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2006,  Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 2008, 2011, Vilnius 2011.

2015

• “Buddiyskaya tsivilizatsiya [Buddhist Civilization.”] Dialog kul'tur. Uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie dlya 9-10 klassov negosudarstvennyh obscheobrazovatel'nyh uchrezhdeniy OAO “RZHD” [Dialogue of Cultures. A Teaching Manual for 9-10 Classes of Non-State Educational Institutions of JSC “Russian Railways”.] M.T. Stepnyants ed. M.: FGBOU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte”, 2015: 79-137.

2014

• “Buddiyskaya tsivilizatsiya [Buddhist Civilization.”] Kniga uchitelya. Dialog kul'tur. Uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie i hrestomatiya [Teacher's Book. Dialogue of Cultures. A Teaching Manual and Reader.] M.: FGBOU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte”, 2014: 103-178.

2013

• “Buddiyskaya tsivilizatsiya [Buddhist Civilization.”] Dialog kul'tur. Programma uchebnogo kursa dlya 9-10 klassov negosudarstvennyh obscheobrazovatel'nyh uchrezhdeniy OAO “RZHD” [Dialogue of Cultures. A Program for 9-10 Classes of Non-State Educational Institutions of JSC “Russian Railways”.] M.T. Stepanyants ed. Moscow: FGBU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zh-d transporte”, 2013: 21-40.

2003

• Ranniy buddizm: religiya i filosofiya. Uchebnoe posobie [Early Buddhism. Tutorial.] Moscow: IPHRAS, 2003. 246 p.

 Books:

2022

• Indiyskiye filosofy o prirode vospriyatiya: Dignaga i yego opponenty. Teksty i issledovaniya [Indian Philosophers on the Nature of Perception: Dignaga and His Opponents. Texts and Studies. Moscow: Nauka – Vost. lit., 2022. ISBN 978-5-02-039881-8.

• Buddiyskie filosofyi ob instrumentah dostovernogo poznaniya [Buddhist Philosophers About the Instruments of Reliable Knowledge.] Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 2014. (in collaboration with N. Kanaeva; Lysenko’s Translation from Sanskrit into English of the Chapter on Perception from Tattvasamgraha of Shantarakshita with Panjika of Kamalashila thereon).

2011

• Neposredstvennoe i oposredovannoe vospriyatie: spor mezhdu buddiyskimi i brahmanistskimi filosofami (medlennoe chtenie tekstov) [Immediate and Mediated Perception: Controversy between the Buddhist and Brahmanic Philosophers (analyzing the texts).] Moscow: IPHRAS, 2011. 233 p.

2008

• Indiyskaya filosofiya. Entsiklopediya [Indian Philosophy. Encyclopedia.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2008, 960 p. (in collaboration with V.K. Shokhin, M.T. Stepanyants, N.A. Zheleznova, N.A. Kanaeva).

2007

• Classical Indian Philosophy Reintepreted. New Delhi: Decent Books, 2007 (in collaboration with Michel Hulin).

2003

• Universum vaysheshiki [Universum of the Vaiśeṣika.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2003.

1994

• Rannyaya buddiyskaya filosofiya [Early Buddhist Philosophy.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 1994.

1986

• Filosofiya prirody v Indii, Atomizm shkoly vaysheshika [Philosophy of Nature in India. Atomism of the Vaiśeṣika School.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 1986.

Papers:

Around 200 papers in Russian, English and French, among them

Recent papers:

2022

• "'Cheloveka nikto ne mozhet osvobodit'' ['No One Can Liberate a Man']." Philosophical Generations. Ed. by Y.V. Sineokaya. Moscow: Publishing House YASK, 2022. P.504–539. ISBN 978-5-907290-83-9.

• "To Вe Liberated the Vaisheshika Way, or the Vaisheshika Attempt at a «Negative Soteriology'." Filosofskaya Mysl' [Philosophical Thought] 12 (2021): 8–14. DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2021.12.37003.  URL: https://nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=37003.
• "Epistemologiya yogicheskogo vospriyatiya: shkola Dignagi-Dharmakirti [The Epistemology of Yogic Perception: Dignāga – Dharmakīrti’s School]." Voprosy Filosofii [Problems of Philosophy] 10 (2021): 153–165. DOI: 10.21146/0042-8744-2021-10-153-165.
• "La non-dualite comme resultat de l'analyse de la perception et du langage (d'apres la Vedāntaparibhāṣa de Dharmaraja)." La non-dualité. Perspectives philosophiques, Scientifiques, spirituelles. Édité par J.M. Counet Leuven. Paris–Bristol: Éditions de l’Institut Supérieur de philosophie Louvain-la-neuve Peeters, 2021: 27–34. ISBN: 9789042946040. URL: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042946040&series_number.

For all papers see here (in Russian).

Translations:

2017

• Kristian Kozeru. “Soznanie, lichnaya identichnost' i debaty o ‘ya’/’ne-ya’ [Consciousness, Personal Identity and Debates about 'Self' / 'Non-Self'.”] Voprosy filosofii [Russian Studies in Philosophy.] 10(2017): 132-140.

2015

• Dharmakirti. “Pramana-vinishchaya (Udostoverenie instrumentov dostovernogo poznaniya). Glava 1. Prat'yaksha (Vospriyatie). Kariki 1–25 [Pramana-Vinishchaya (Verification of the Instruments of Reliable Knowledge). Chapter 1. Pratyaksha (Perception). Kariks 1-25.”] Istoriya filosofii [History of Philosophy.] 20,2(2015): 79-106.
• Dharmaraja Adhvarindra. “Vedanta-paribhasha. S kommentariem ‘Arthadipika-tika-vibhushita’ Dhanapatisuri Sutashivadatty’ [Vedanta-paribhasha. With the Commentary ‘Arthadipika-tika-vibhushita’ of Dhanapatisuri Sutashivadatta.”] Istoriko-filosofskiy ezhegodnik’ 2015 [History of Philosophy Yearbook’ 2015] (2015): 101-131.

2014

• Shantarakshita. “‘Issledovanie opredeleniy vospriyatiya’ iz kompendiuma ‘Tattva-sangraha’ s kommentariem Kamalashily ‘Pandzhika’ [‘Study of the Definitions of Perception’ from the Compendium ‘Tattva-sangraha’ with the Commentary ‘Panjika’ of Kamalashila.”] (Translation from Sanskrit by V.G. Lysenko.) Lysenko V.G. Kanaeva N.A. Buddiyskie filosofy ob instrumentah dostovernogo poznaniya [Buddhist Philosophers About the Instruments of Reliable Knowledge.] M.: IPHRAS, 2014.

2013

• Prashastapada. “Padarthadharma-sangraha. Shridhara. N'yaya-kandali [Padarthadharma-sangraha. Shridhara. Nyaya-kandali.”] (Translation from Sanskrit by V.G.Lysenko.) Svet dharmy: Antologiya traditsionnoy indiyskoy filosofii [Light of the Dharma: Anthology of Traditional Indian Philosophy.] S.-Petersburg: Amfora, 2013: 364-412.
• “Charles Malamoud. Chernota pis'ma [The Blackness of the Writing.”] (Translation from French by V.G. Lysenko.) Vestnik RGGU. Istoricheskie nauki. Istoriya / Studia classica et mediaevalia [Bulletin of RSUH. Historical Studies. History. Studia classica et mediaevalia]17(2013): 142-170 https://rggubulletin.rggu.ru/binary/2629089_44.1382437160.28386.pdf.

2009

• Louis Pierre Althusser. “Pis'mo Merabu Mamardashvili [A Letter to Merab Mamardashvili.”] (Translation from French and notes by V.G. Lysenko.) M. Mamardashvili. Opyt fizicheskoy metafiziki [Essay on Physical Metaphysics.] Moscow: Progress-traditsiya, 2009: 271-277.
• “‘Nyaya-bindu’ of Dharmakirti with the Commentary ‘Tika’ by Dharmottara. Chapter 1. Perception.”] (Preface, transition from Sanskrit and notes by V.G. Lysenko.)  Istoriya filosofii [History of Philosophy] 14(2009): 170-206.

2008

• “Dignaga ob ob'ekte kak opore poznaniya. 'Alambana-pariksha' ('Issledovanie opory soznaniya') i Vritti (kommentariy) [Dignaga about the Object as the Support of Knowledge. 'Alambana-pariksha' ('Study of the Support of Consciousness') and Vritti (Comment).”] (Preface and translation from Sanskrit by V.G. Lyssenko.) Voprosy filosofii [Russian Studies in Philosophy] 4(2008): 138–150.

2005

• Prashastapada. “Sobranie harakteristik kategoriy” s kommentariem “N'yayakandali” Shridhary [“Padārtha-dharma-sangraha” of Praśastapāda with “Nyayakandali” of Shrīdhara.] (Translation from Sanskrit into Russian, Introduction, Historico-philosophical commentary, Notes and Indexes by Victoria Lysenko.) Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2005.
• Charles Malamoud. Ispech' mir [Cuire le monde.] (Preface, translation from French by V.G.Lysenko). Moscow: Vostochnaya literature, 2005.
• François Jullien. O vremeni. Filosofiya zhit' [Du “Temps”, Éléments d’une philosophie du vivre.] (Preface, translation from French by V.G. Lysenko.) Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya, 2005.

2004

• Michel Hulin. “Ideya pereseleniya dush v 20 v. [The Idea of Transmigration of Souls in XX Century.”] (Translation from French by V.G. Lysenko.) Sravnitel'naya filosofiya. Moral'naya filosofiya v kontekste mnogoobraziya kul'tur [Comparative Philosophy. Moral Philosophy in the Context of Diversity of Cultures.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2004.
• Hans Georg Møller. “Moral' i patalogiya. Komparativnyy podhod [Morality and Pathology. The Comparative Approach.”] (Translation from English by V.G.Lysenko.) Sravnitel'naya filosofiya. Moral'naya filosofiya v kontekste mnogoobraziya kul'tur [Comparative Philosophy. Moral Philosophy in the Context of Diversity of Cultures.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2004.
• François Jullien. “Osnovanie morali: tayna zhalosti [The Basis of Morality: the Mystery of Pity.”] (Translation from French by V.G.Lysenko.) Sravnitel'naya filosofiya. Moral'naya filosofiya v kontekste mnogoobraziya kul'tur [Comparative Philosophy. Moral Philosophy in the Context of Diversity of Cultures.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2004.

2001

• François Jullien. “Put' k tseli: v obhod ili napryamik. Strategiya smysla v Kitae i Gretsii [Le Détour et l’accès, Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce.”] (Translation from French by V.G. Lysenko). Moscow: Moskovskiy filosofskiy fond, 2001.

2000

• Michel Hulin. “Sravnitel'naya filosofiya: metody i perspektivy [Comparative Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives.”] (Translation from French by V.G.Lysenko.) Sravnitel'naya filosofiya [Comparative Philosophy.] Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2000.
• Michel Hulin. “Pamyat' i bessoznatel'noe v ‘Yoga-sutrah’ i v psihoanalize [Memory and the Unconscious in the ‘Yoga Sutras’ and in Psychoanalysis.”] (Translation from French by V.G.Lysenko.) Istoriya filosofii [History of Philosophy] 7(2000).

Participation at congresses and conferences

For details see here (in Russian).

Interview with the scholar

• about translations  https://old.russ.ru/columns/20040816_kalash.html

• about Buddhism https://www.jkhora.narod.ru/2010-12-11.pdf, see also

• https://finam.fm/archive-view/5092/2/

• Interview with "The Times of India": https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/interviews/Branches-of-Indology-like-religion-flourishing-in-Russia/articleshow/6184290.cms

Е-mail: vglyssenko@yandex.ru