Śabdaprakāśa. Proceedings of the Zograph Readings 1 [Шабдапракаша. Зографский сборник. Выпуск I]. Ed. by Y.V. Vassilkov and S.V.Pakhomov. St Petersburg 2011. 315 p.
In April 1980 a modest academic event took place at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (USSR Academy of Sciences; at present time, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts). The significance of the event entitled 'an extended meeting of the South
and South-East Asia Department' was not given its due by a majority of its participants. The secret was hidden in the word 'extended' which implied that along with the Department's staff, Indologists from other Leningrad and Moscow academic institutions took part in the meeting.
The aim that they all pursued in common was to study the foundations of traditional Indian civilization by way of painstaking analysis
of classical Indian texts...
The 3rd International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of B.Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884–1931) will take place at the IOM RAS on April 22–24. The conference program is now available.
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