Tolchelnikov Ivan

Year and Place of Birth

Born in 2003, Vologda.

Education

• Graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy in 2025 (bachelor degree).

Field of Studies

• History of medieval Indian philosophy.
• Advaita Vedanta.

Professional appointments

• 2025 — till present — Assistant at the Department of Eastern Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.

List of publications

Papers:

2025

• “Sureshvara o sebe kak uchenike Shankary: metodologicheskiye vyvody [Sureśvara about Himself as a Disciple of Śaṅkara: Methodological Conclusions].” Voprosy filosofii [Russian Studies in Philosophy]. 5(2025), 118—127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2025-5-118-127 (in Russian).

Participation at congresses and conferences

2025

• 2025, November 5 — speaker at the 3rd Annual International Conference “Asian Philosophies: History, Methodology, Intercultural Approach”, RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow (paper: “The First Chapters of the ‘Jābāla Upaniṣad’: What is a Sacred Place?”).
• 2025, June 28 — speaker at the 19th World Sanskrit Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal (paper: “A Non-Paninian Approach to Sanskrit Morphophonology”).
• 2025, May 22 — speaker at the 46th Zograf Readings, Saint-Petersburg (paper: “‘Naiṣkarmya-siddhi’ (I. 52) of Sureśvara as a Structure for Reconstruction of Śaṅkara's Theory of Liberation”).

2024

• 2024, October 30 — speaker at the 2nd Annual International Conference “Asian Philosophies: History, Methodology, Intercultural Approach”, RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow (paper: “The History of Philosophy of Disciples: What Sureśvara Says about Himself as a Disciple and What Methodological Conclusions Can Be Drawn from This”).
• 2024, September 27 — speaker at the 4th Indological Conference The Dubyanskiy Readings, HSE, Moscow (paper: “Extension of A. Zalizniak's Approach to Sanskrit Morphonology”).
• 2024, May 15 — speaker at the 45th Zograf Readings, Saint-Petersburg (paper: “Stages of the Way to Liberation according to ‘Naiṣkarmya-siddhi’ (I. 52) of Sureśvara”).
• 2024, February 15 — speaker at the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Sanskrit Research Institute, Auroville, India (paper: “A Non-Paninian Approach to Sanskrit Morphonology Based on the Works of A. Zaliznyak”).