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vilnius 200px lithuanian indology , buddhism studies , indian philosophy vilnius university 28 september 1964 vilnius beinorius.jpg audrius beinorius
 audrius beinorius academy of agriculture
audrius beinorius

audrius beinorius -lrb- born september 28 , 1964 in vilnius -rrb- is a lithuanian philosopher , orientalist -lrb- specialist of indology , buddhist studies and comparative studies -rrb- , 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 -lrb- sanskrit , pali , bengali , tibetan -rrb- at the ramakrishna mission institute of culture in calcutta .
in 1996 , beinorius become a lecturer at the center of orientalist studies at vilnius university .
in 1998 , he earned a doctor of philosophy degree from lithuanian institute of philosophy .
he became a docent , assoc. prof. in 2000 and a full professor in 2007 .
2004-2014 a.beinorius was the director of the center of oriental studies at vilnius university , lithuania .
he has been doing the research work in the great britain -lrb- oriental institute , oxford , 2000 -rrb- , the netherlands -lrb- leiden , international institute for asian studies , iias , in 2004-5 -rrb- , france -lrb- sorbonne , 2012 -rrb- , brown university -lrb- usa , fulbright scholar in 2008-2009 -rrb- , japan -lrb- nanzan institute for religion and culture , under japan foundation scholarship , 2008 -rrb- , india -lrb- rm institute of culture , sarnath institute for higher tibetan studies , and jnu institute of advance studies , 2013-1014 -rrb- , institute of south asian studies at heidelberg university -lrb- 2015 -rrb- .
as well as , he has giving a number of a public lectures and participated in many conferences around the world .
the main scientific fields of prof. a.beinorius are : the perception of indian culture in the west , indian philosophy , astrology and cosmology , indian religious history -lrb- buddhism and hinduism -rrb- , cultural psychology , comparative cultural studies , postcolonial studies , methodologies of comparative religion studies , classical indian psychology , westen esoteric movements -lrb- theosophy and freemasonry -rrb- in india .
since 2010 he is a founder and a director of confucius institute -lrb- ci -rrb- at vilnius university .
editor-in-chief of academic journal `` acta orientalia vilnensia '' -lrb- since 2000 -rrb- .
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 .
