Audrius Beinorius


Audrius Beinorius is a Lithuanian philosopher, orientalist, translator, Habilitated Doctor of Humane Letters.
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, the Netherlands, France, Brown University, Japan, in India, Institute of South Asian Studies at Heidelberg University. Has been lecturing at La Sapienza University, University of Iceland, 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 religious history, Indian astrology and cosmology, Cultural Psychology, Postcolonial Studies, Methodologies of Comparative Religion Studies, Classical Indian psychology, Western Esoteric Movements in India. 2010-2018 - a founder and director of Confucius Institute at Vilnius University. 2000-2015 - Editor-in-chief of academic journal .
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
  • Imagining Otherness: Postcolonial Perspective to Indian Religious Culture, 2007
  • India and the West: Layers of Cultural Interaction, 2012
  • Development of Indian Buddhism, 2010
  • Introduction to Indian and Buddhist Studies, 2003
Besides many other, the most significant his translations into Lithuanian are:
  • Dhammapada, 2005 ;
  • Dhammacakkapavattana sutta, 2005 ;
  • The Upanishads, 2007 and 2013 ;
  • 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.