Academic Degree: Doct. of Historical Sc.

Academic Rank: Professor

Position: Head of the Center for Asiatic and Pacific Research

Affiliation: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS

Contact Data:

n-zhuk@yandex.ru

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

Moscow State University, Faculty of History (Department of Ethnography).

Candidate of Sciences degree (1971, theme of degree work ‘Lamaism and Early Forms of Religion’), Doctor of Sciences degree (1990, theme of degree work ‘Main Categories of Mongolian Traditional Culture’).

Previously worked at the Institute of Ethnography of Academy of Sciences of USSR.

Key Disciplines Taught:

Research Interests: history of culture of Mongolian peoples of Eurasia (Mongolians, Buryats, Kalmyks), evolution of religious tradition of Central Asia’s peoples (early beliefs, Shamanism, Buddhism), history of science.

List of Most Essential Works:

Author of about 250 publications (monographs, articles, handbooks), more than 30 translated in English, German, French, Polish, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Monographs:

Zhukovskaya N. L. Lamaism and Early Forms of Religion. Moscow, 1977.

Arutyunov S. A., Zhukovskaya N. L. Holy Relics: Myth and Reality. Moscow, 1987.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Categories and Symbolism of Mongolian Traditional Culture. Moscow, 1988.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Destiny of Nomad Culture. Essays on Mongolia and Mongols. Moscow, 1990.

Zhukovskaya N. L., Mokshin N. F. From Karelia to Ural. A Reader. Moscow, 1998.

 Zhukovskaya N. L. The World of Traditional Mongolian Culture. USA; Lewinston, Queenston, 2000.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Nomads of Mongolia: Culture, Traditions, Symbolism. A Handbook. Moscow, 2002.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Historical and Cultural Map of Buryatia. Moscow, 2001. 2^nd ed., 2002.

Religion in History and Culture of Mongolian Peoples of Russia / compil., ed.-in-chief, author of one chapter Zhukovskaya N. L. Moscow, Jerusalem, 2008.

Krol M. A. Pages of My Life (Memoirs) / foreword, annotated index, and comment. by Zhukovskaya N. L. Moscow, 2001. 2^nd ed., 2002.

Kalmyks (Ser. ‘Peoples and Cultures’) / ed.-in-chief, author of the foreword Zhukovskaya N. L. Moscow, 2010.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Buddhism in Russia. Moscow, 2011.

Zhukovskaya N. L., Gorbunova E. E. Sacred Texts of World religions in 5 vol. Vol. 2. Dhammapada and Other Buddhist Texts. The Collection. Moscow, 2011.

Zhukovskaya N. L. About Buddhism and Buddhists. Articles of Different Years (1969–2011). Moscow, 2013.

Zhukovskaya N. L. Mongolia: a World of Nomad Culture. Moscow, 2014.