А В Зорин

Biographic Data

ID6411590
NAMEА В Зорин
GIVEN NAMESА В
FAMILY NAMEЗорин
SIGNATUREЗОРИН А В
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Oriental Manuscripts
ORCID0000-0002-5721-4558
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • BuddhistRoad Paper 2.8 “Tibetan Texts from Kharakhoto on the Cult ofVajravārāhī”

    Open AccessAlexander Zorin, А В ЗоринBOOKBuddhistRoad paper2024

    This paper introduces all the identified Tibetan texts from Kharakhoto preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Science (IOM RAS) and the British Library that relate to the cult of the Buddhist goddess Vajravārāhī. It is a relatively wide circle of sources consisting of sādhanas, ritual texts, hymns, and yogic instructions that treat Vajravārāhī in several forms such as the Two-Faced Dancing One, Cinnamuṇḍā (th…

  • A Tibetan Hymn to Uṣṇīṣavijayā from Khara-Khoto Kept at the British Library

    Open AccessА В ЗоринARTICLEThe World of the Orient2024

    This article continues a series of publications on Tibetan texts dedicated to various Buddhist deities, discovered in Khara-Khoto within a large corpus of texts from the Tangut State period (11th–13th centuries). While the main part of this corpus was brought by Petr Kozlov to Saint Petersburg in 1909, a small yet significant collection was later acquired by Aurel Stein as a result of his 1913–1915 expedition. Among Stein’s collection kept at the…

  • Post-War Czechoslovakia in the Reflection of the United States’ Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt

    А В Зорин, A V ZorinARTICLEIstoriya2022

    After the World War II, a tense struggle took place in Czechoslovakia between democratic and communist political forces. It ended with the Communists’ victory in February 1948. The article is devoted to the perception of these process by the US Ambassador in Prague, L. Steinhardt. Exploring his letters, messages and speeches, the author analyzes Steinhardt’s views and political stereotypes, attitude to the Czechoslovak communists and their oppone…

  • Dynamics of Changes in the Weapon Complex of the Tlingit in the Second Half of the 18th – mid-19th Centuries [Dinamika izmenenii v komplekse vooruzheniia indeitsev-tlinkitov vo vtoroi polovine XVIII –…

    А В Зорин, Alexandr Zorin et al.ARTICLEEtnograficheskoe obozrenie2021

  • Secular Fragments of Tibetan Texts found at the Main Dunhuang Collection Kept at the IOM, RAS

    Open AccessА В Зорин, Alexander V Zorin et al.ARTICLEWritten Monuments of the Orient2020

    The paper introduces twelve fragments of secular texts in Tibetan found in the main collection of Dunhuang manuscripts preserved in the IOM, RAS. In regard of each fragment a physical description, provisional notes on their contents, digital copy and transliteration are provided. Since all the fragments are very short our identifications of the texts are just tentative. One of them, Дх-7759, relates to the divination with dice. The others are fra…

  • On the “Elusiveness” of the Manuscript Legacy of the Sem’ Palat Monastery

    Open AccessА В Зорин, A V ZorinARTICLEKunstkamera2020

    А. В. Зорин О «ПРИЗРАЧНОСТИ» РУКОПИСНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ СЕМИ ПАЛАТ: ОТКЛИК НА КНИГУ «БУДДИЙСКИЙ МОНАСТЫРЬ АБЛАЙ-ХИТ» А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я. Статья представляет собой развернутый отклик на книгу «Буддийский монастырь Аблай-хит» (Алматы 2019), но касается он главным образом одной конкретной темы -обстоятельств поступления первых тибетских и монгольских текстов к Петру I и затем в Библиотеку Санкт-Петербургской академии наук.В двух главах книги, написанных Н.…

  • Tibetan studies in Russia

    Open AccessAlexandr Zorin, Alexander Zorin et al.ARTICLEAnnuaire - Ecole pratique des…2019

    T ibeTology is one of the oldest branches of Oriental studies in Russia that used to be closely connected with foreign and inner policy of the Russian State starting from the late 17 th century. The neighborhood with various Mongolian politia and gradual spread of Russian sovereignty upon some of them caused the necessity of studying and using Tibetan along with Mongolian, Oirat, Buryat languages and also, from the 18 th century, studying Tibetan…

  • The First Tibetan Leaves Acquired by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

    Open AccessAgnieszka Helman-Ważny, Liubov Kriakina et al.ARTICLEWritten Monuments of the Orient2015

    The paper presents the first results of the study of 204 folios from the legendary Ablaikit monastery recently identified within the IOM, RAS Tibetan collection. The three main aspects touched upon are 1) the condition of the folios and the conservation treatment applied to make the study of their contents possible, 2) identification of texts that turned out to be fragments of an independent version of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, and 3) paper ana…