1) Education

● 2025: MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, University of Oxford.
● 2021: PhD in Philosophy, Vilnius University. PhD title: “On the Realist and
Anti-Realist Interpretations of Vaiśeṣika: From Contemporary Scholarship to Ancient
Indian and Premodern East Asian Sources”.
● 2017: MA in Philosophy, Vilnius University.
● 2014: BA in History (specializing in Medieval Studies), Vilnius University.

2) Employment

● Since 2020: Researcher at the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.
● 2022: Lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University.
● 2017-2018, 2020, 2022: Part-time lecturer at Vilnius University Confucius Institute.

3) Linguistic competence

● European languages: Lithuanian (mother tongue), English (advanced), Latvian (upper
intermediate), Russian (upper intermediate), French (upper intermediate), German
(upper intermediate), Italian (intermediate), Polish (intermediate). Ability to read a
dozen other European languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek.
● Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese (upper intermediate), Tibetan (upper
intermediate). Ability to read Classical Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and Sanskrit.

4) Selected publications

Monographs:

● 2024. Indian Philosophy: The Vaiśeṣika School – Translation and Commentary on the
“Vaiśeṣika Sutras”. Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. (In Lithuanian).

● 2022. Comparative Analysis of Aristotle and Kaṇāda on the Categories and
Padārthas. Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. (In Lithuanian).

Articles:

● 2024. “The Reception of Vaiśeṣika Philosophy in East Asia: A Study of Kōgen Jōtai’s
(光嚴乗体, 1740-1807) Shōshūjikkugironshaku Bōkanroku (勝宗十句義論釋傍觀
錄)”. 法鼓佛學學報=Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies. 35: 131-193.
● 2021. “Indian Philosophy Beyond India: Reconsideration of Vaiśeṣika 勝論 and Its
Sources in East Asia”. Sino-Platonic Papers. 314: 1–71.
● 2021. “Realness and Knowledge: Two Problems with the Vaiśeṣika Theory of
Liberation”. Sovijus. 9(1): 109–119.
● 2020. “Indian Philosophy in China: Was Daśapadārthī 勝宗十句義論 Authored by a
Vaiśeṣika?”. Dialogue and Universalism. 30: 89–106.
● 2017. “Buddhist Saṃdhinirmocana and H. G. Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A
Comparative Analysis”. Logos. 90: 170–183. (In Lithuanian).

5) Research projects and study grants

● Recipient of the Young Researchers’ Scholarship, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
● 2022-23: Researcher in “The Project on the Formation, Commentaries, Applications
and Transmission of the Buddhist Treatises (śāstra)” funded by Sheng Yen Center for
Chinese Buddhist Studies (R.O.C.). Individual research project: “The Reception of
Vaiśeṣika Philosophy Through the Daśapadārthī-Śāstra in East Asian Buddhism”.
● 2019: Awardee of internship at the Buddhist Resource and Research Center of
Zhejiang University (P. R. China).

6) Other activities relevant to the academic experience

Invited lectures in English:

● 2022: “Buddhism as a Uniting Factor of Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan languages”,
University of Latvia, 27th December.

● 2021: “Recovering the Forgotten East Asian Vaiśeṣika Philosophical Tradition”,
National Chengchi University (R.O.C.), 23rd September.

Selected conference papers:

● 2022: “Vaiśeṣika Philosophy in Kuījī’s commentary on Nyāyapraveśa,” 5th Baltic
Alliance for Asian Studies Conference – Asia in Transition/Tradition as the Source of
Change, Tallinn University, Estonia, 23rd–25th September.
● 2021: “On the Religious and Political Reasons of the Rise and Fall of
Consciousness-Only School in China”: Religion, Politics, and Uncertainty, ISA-RC22
Mid Term Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-14th November.
● 2019: “Reception of Daśapadārthaśastra 勝宗十句義論 in East Asia,” 17th Annual
Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), Tartu
University, Estonia, 25-29th June.

Conference and Seminar Organization:

● 2024: Organizer of the Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar (TGSS) during Michaelmas
Term.
● 2023: Coorganizer of the 20th European Association for the Study of Religions
(EASR) conference on the theme of “Religions and Technologies”, Vilnius, Lithuania,
4-8th September.
● 2022: Coorganizer of the online conference “Translation and Interpretation. The Case
for Comparative Philosophy”. An initiative by the British Academy in partnership
with the universities of Exeter, Oxford, Cardiff, Pune, Strasbourg, Bern, München,
Vilnius, Hong Kong, Connecticut, & Harvard, 10-11th May.

Professional membership:

● Member of the Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions and the Lithuanian
Philosophical Association.

7) Public engagement

● Since 2022: Conducting weekly meetings of “Readings of Eastern Philosophy” and
uploading their videos to YouTube (presently in Lithuanian, but in the future will
include English).
● Since 2016: Founder and moderator of the Facebook group “Oriental Philosophy”
(mainly in Lithuanian).