Centre for the Research of Indian Philosophy and Culture «‎Purushottama»‎

Name of the project: Development of a next-generation methodology and intellectual foundations for the study of Indian philosophy and its relationship with other leading philosophical traditions of Eurasia

The main objective of the research is the development of concepts and new methodological approaches that will allow to form a new outlook on Indian philosophy, to assess its principal philosophical notions and concepts taking the changes in the modern world into account, to determine their intellectual importance for the prioritised philosophical traditions. The scientific research as a whole is aimed at the creation of an advanced methodology for the study of a vast array of sources in the domain of Indian philosophy with a subsequent comparative investigation of major philosophical traditions. This goal is supposed to be achieved by means of working in the following directions:

• The translation of the most significant modern studies of Indian philosophy into Russian;
• The translation of prominent texts of classical Indian philosophy (written in Sanskrit, Pali, and Tamil) into Russian;
• The re-assessment, development and testing of various methodological approaches to the research of Indian philosophy;
• The comparative research of the core cultural spheres;
• The research of the influence of Indian philosophy on the development of the terminology of philosophy in Russian;
• The testing of the results of the research in teaching lecture courses on Indian philosophy and disciplines expressly related to it (history of Indian philosophy, history of Indian logic, literary studies, history of Indian religions, Sanskrit, the Tamil language, methods of Indian yoga, history of Buddhist teachings, and others).