Olga Lundysheva is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof.dr. Michaël Peyrot and Prof.dr. Sasha Lubotsky. She investigates Tocharian B manuscripts with a special focus on palaeography and codicology.

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Fields of interest

• Brāhmī palaeography
• Tocharian B literature
• Old Uyghur literature
• Central Asian manuscriptology
• Central Asian Buddhism

Research

In my PhD research I examine the Tocharian manuscripts kept in the Saint Petersburg (IOM RAS) collection from the paleographical and codicological points of view.  

The aim is to determine Northern Turkestan Brāhmī script and page layout patterns with their geographical and (if possible) temporal correlations. As the manuscripts have been little studied and are largely unidentified, an important goal is a description and where possible identification of the manuscripts in order to introduce them to the scholarly community.  

CV

2023–: Internal PhD candidate at LUCL in co-tutelle with the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)

2017–2023: External PhD candidate at LUCL in co-tutelle with the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)

2008–2021: Project leader of the investigation and cataloguing of the Serindian collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM RAS, St. Petersburg)

2007–2021: “Assistant researcher” and then “Researcher” at the Department of Manuscripts and Documents at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (now IOM RAS)

2000–2006: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental studies, Department of Indian Philology (master’s degree in Asian and African Studies, Diploma with honors; St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

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