Academic Degree: Cand. of Philological Sc.

Academic Rank: Associate Professor

Position: Leading research associate, head of Department of Mongolian Philology

Affiliation: Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS

Contact Data:

deliash@mail.ru

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

1977 — graduated from Zhdanov Leningrad State University, Oriental Department, Chair of Mongolian Philology.

1987–1989 — junior research associate, Department of Mongolian Studies, Kalmyk Scientific-Research Institute of History, Philology and Economics (now — Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS)

1990 — research intern, St. Petersburg Branch of Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

1990–1994 — postgraduate studies, St. Petersburg Branch of Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Candidate of Sciences degree (1994, theme of degree work ‘The Tibetan Didactic Narrative ‘A Moon-Cuckoo Tale’ and Its Spread in Central Asia’)

1994 — junior research associate, Department of Mongolian Studies, Kalmyk Institute for Humanitarian Studies (now — Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS)

1995 — senior research associate

1996–2015 — lecturer at the Kalmyk State University

2001–2006 — Head of the Manuscript Fund of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanitarian Studies

2001–2002 — Acting Academic Secretary at the Kalmyk Institute for Humanitarian Studies

2004 — approved in the rank of associate professor of the Higher Attestation Commission in specialty ‘Foreign literature (Mongolian)’

2007–2017 — senior research associate, Department of Written Monuments, Literature and Buddhology, Kalmyk Institute for Humanitarian Studies

2017 till present — leading research associate, head of Department of Mongolian philology

Key Disciplines Taught:

Mongolian

Language of written sources

writing systems of Mongolian peoples

Research Interests: Mongolian and Oirat written monuments and their language, cataloguing (collecting, description, research, translation and publishing), paleography, archaeography, textual studies of sources written in Tibetan, Mongolian and Oirat, history of Mongolian peoples’ Buddhism, history of medieval Mongolian literature, Tibetan literature, Mongolian and Tibetan folklore, issues of translating Buddhist sources, methods of teaching Mongolian, training lexicography.

List of Most Essential Works:

Muzraeva D. N. ‘The Sea of Parables’. Oirat Translation Made by Tugmyud-gavdzhi (O. M. Dordzhiev). In 2 books. Book I. Foreword, translation in Russian, commentary and glossary by Muzraeva D. N. Book II. Manuscript Facsimile. Elista, 2017. 242 p., 290 p.

Muzraeva D. N. Tibetan-Mongolian Narrative Literature of the 17^th–18^th cent. (translated sources in Mongolian and Oirat script). Elista, 2013. 150 p.

Muzraeva D. N. Buddhist Sources Written in Tibetan and Oirat in Kalmykia Collections / ed.-in-chief Bakaeva E. P., scientific ed. Burykin A. A. Elista, 2012. 224 p.

Muzraeva D. N. The Shorter Mongolian-Russian Dictionary. Mongγol oros tobči toli / for Regional Studies, Philology. Foreign Philology specialties, Comparative linguistics master degree specialty. Elista, 2012. 224 p.

The Tale of Moon Cuckoo. Mongolian Version. Xylograph Facsimile / foreword, transliteration, translation, commentaries, glossary and appendixes by Muzraeva D. N. / ed.-in-chief Kulganek I. V. Elista, 2004. 576 p.

Bakaeva E. P., Orlova K. V., Muzraeva D. N. et al. Cross-Border Culture: Comparative Research Essays on Traditions of the Western Mongols and Kalmyks. Elista, 2016. 452 p.

Muzraeva D. N. Literary Heritage. The Kalmyks / eds-in-chief Bakaeva E. P., Zhukovskaya N. L. Moscow, 2010. P. 387–405.

Norbo Sh. Zaya-Pandita (Biography Materials) / translated from Old Mongolian by Muzraeva D. N., Orlova K. V., Sanchirov V. P., scientific ed. Sanchirov V. P. Elista, 1999. 335 p.

Muzraeva D. N. About the Collection of Tibetan and Mongolian Written Sources Donated to the Archive of the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS by E. B. Ubushiev: Using Donation Inscriptions to Touch Up the Portrait of Donator. Vestnik arhivista. 2018. No. 4. P. 1206–1216.

Burykin A. A., Muzraeva D. N. The Academician B. Ya. Vladimirtsov and the Issues of the Mongolian Versification. Novyj filologicheskij vestnik. 2018. No. 4 (47). P. 69–81.

Muzraeva D. N. The Gzungs 'Dus Buddhist Texts Collection: Excerpts from the History of Its Existence Among the Kalmyks (A Case Study of E. B. Ubushiev’s Collection from the Archive of the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS). Oriental Studies (Vestnik KIGI RAN). 2018. No. 3 (37). P. 68–94.

Muzraeva D. N. The Sutra of the Wise and the Fool: Another Look at the Plots (Evidence from the Oirat Manuscript Translation of the Sea of Parables by Thog-Med Bka’-Bcu). Vestnik Kalmyckogo instituta gumanitarnyh issledovanij RAN. 2017. No. 6. P. 178–185.

Muzraeva D. N. About One Oirat Manuscript of 1914 from Tugmyud-gavdzhi (O. M. Dordzhiev)’s Collection. Vestnik NIIGN pri Pravitel'stve Respubliki Mordoviya. 2017. No. 4. P. 189–197.

Muzraeva D. N. A Comparative Analysis Of Literal And Semantic Mongolian Translations (Evidence From Translations Of “The Sutra Of The Wise And The Fool” Performed By Širegetü-Guši-ČorǰI And Toyin-Guši). Vestnik Kalmyckogo instituta gumanitarnyh issledovanij RAN. No. 3. 2016. P. 188–200.

Muzraeva D. N. Narrative Analysis Experience of the Buddhist Writing “The Sea of Parables” (by the material of the manuscript of Tugmyud-Gavdzhi’s translation). Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki. No. 12 (66). Part 3. 2016. P. 42–45.

Muzraeva D. N. Comparative Studies of Mongolian and Oirat Buddhist Translations (Main Issues). Mongolica–XV dedicated to Z. K. Kasyanenko anniversary. St. Petersburg, 2015. P. 16–23.

Muzraeva D. N. On the Garchak (List of Contents) of the Manuscript Translation by Tugmyud-gavdzhi (O. M. Dordzhiev). Vestnik Kalmyckogo instituta gumanitarnyh issledovanij RAN. No. 3. 2015. P. 151–157.

Muzraeva D. N. Studies of the Language of Written Monuments of the End of 16^th–18^th cent. (based on Mongolian and Oirat translations of Tibetan “Sutra Of The Wise And The Fool”) Revisited. ACTA LINGUISTICA PETROPOLITANA. Trudy Instituta lingvisticheskih issledovanij / ed.-in-chief Kazansky N. N. Vol. XI. Part 3 / compil. and ed. by P. O. Rykin. St. Petersburg, 2015. P. 259–273.

Muzraeva D. N., Batsuuri A. Towards the Characteristics of the Tibetan Written Sources from the Collection of Khovd State University (Mongolia). Vestnik Kalmyckogo instituta gumanitarnyh issledovanij RAN. No. 4. 2014. P. 139–142.

Muzraeva D. N. A Xara kele Text from O. M. Dordzhiev’s Collection. Mongolovedenie (Mongol sudlal). 2018. No. 2 (13). P. 67–81.

Muzraeva D. N. Can the Dkar chag Texts in Tibetan-Mongolian Literary Tradition Be Considered as Registers, Contents, Catalogues or Bibliographical Handbooks? Setevoe vostokovedenie: ustnye i pis'mennye tradicii v kontekste mezhkul'turnogo vzaimodejstviya. Proceedings of the 2^nd International Scientific Forum. Elista, 2018. P. 128–130.

Muzraeva D. N. To the Problem of Dating the Later Oirat Texts on the Basis of the Paleographic and Graphic-Spelling Description (on archival materials of the Republic of Kalmykia). Mongolovedenie (Mongol sudlal). 2017. No. 2 (11). P. 132–134.

Muzraeva D. N. On the Problematics of Historical Studies of Original and Translated Compositions of Kalmyk Buddhist Priests. Mongolovedenie (Mongol sudlal). 2016. No. 2 (9). P. 163–171.

Muzraeva D. N. On the Content and Structure of One Story from “The Sea of Parables” (for Consideration of Chapter 7 of the Manuscript of the Translation by Tugmyud-Gavji). Mongolovedenie (Mongol sudlal). 2016. No. 1 (8). P. 88–94.

Muzraeva D. N. Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist Motives in the Kalmyk “Seventy Two Stories”. Dzhangar» i epicheskie tradicii tyurko-mongol'skih narodov: problemy sohraneniya i issledovaniya. Proceedings of the 2^nd International Scientific Conference (Elista, 15 September 2016). P. 166–169.

Muzraeva D. N. Hand-Written Collections in Tibetan and Oirat as a Source for Buddhist Translated Literature Studies. Buddizm v dialoge kul'tur Vostoka i Zapada: proshloe, nastoyashchee i budushchee. Elista, 2016. P. 175–181. 

Muzraeva D. N. Mongolian and Oirat Translated Literature (17^th–18^th cent.) Studies Revisited. Galdan Boshigt sudlal (olon ulsyn erdem shinzhilgeenij baga hurlyn iltgeluudijn emhetgel). Ulaanbaatar, 2015. P. 143–151.

Muzraeva D. N. On the Comparative Analysis of Bird Image in Eastern and Slavic Poetics (Birds in V. Khlebnikov’s Works). Azijskoe mirovidenie Velimira Hlebnikova v aspekte kalmyckih istokov tvorchestva Poeta. Proceedings of the Russian Scientific Conference (Elista, 22–23 September 2015). Elista, 2015. P. 118–146.

Muzraeva D. N. On the Comparative Research of Literary Tradition of Kalmyks and Western Mongolia’s Oirats (based on 2006 and 2013 expeditions’ materials). Buddijskaya kul'tura: istoriya, istochnikovedenie, yazykoznanie i iskusstvo: SHestye Dorzhievskie chteniya. St. Petersburg, 2015. P. 405–412.

Muzraeva D. N. “Subhasita” Texts in Tibetan and Oirat from the Collection of the Scientific Archive of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanitarian Studies. Aziya i Afrika v menyayushchemsya mire. Proceedings of 28^th International Scientific Conference on Asia and Africa’s Source Studies and Historiography (St. Petersburg, 22–24 April 2015) / eds-in-chief Dyakov N. N., Matveev A. S. St. Petersburg, 2015. P. 247.