CV

Formal education

• Moscow Institute for Foreign Relations, BA in Regional Studies (Asia), 2005-2009

• Moscow Institute for Foreign Relations, MA in Regional Studies (Asia), 2009-2011

• Rangjung Yeshe Institute (Kathmandu), Two years of non-degree studies (Himalayan languages and Buddhist hermeneutics), 2017-2019

Teacher training

• MBMT (Mindfulness-based Mind Training) teacher certification (Netherlands + UK), 2014-2015

• MBMT (Mindfulness-based Mind Training) teacher certification (Russia), 2018-2019

• CEB (Cultivating Emotional Balance) teacher training, 2019-2020

Select conferences

• Zen 2.0 Conference 2021 (co-organised by Buddhist Community at Stanford, Stanford Zen Society and Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura). Panel discussion on the topic of Compassionate Storytelling (with Elaine Lai, Christian Howard, Chenxing Han and Kodo Nishimura)

Original courses developed

• Creating Compassionate Identities training program (first run in 2017)

• Mindful Compassion and Charter for Compassion 8-week course (first run in 2016)

• Training in Mindful Ethics (from 2016)

• Four Foundations of Mindfulness: An 8-week Exploration (first run in 2018)

• Foundations of Mindfulness (online, 2020)

• Exploring the Four Immeasurables (online, 2021)

Books published (in Russian)

Author

• Radical Tranquility. Contemplative practice for profound wellbeing (2021)

Translator

• Alan Wallace. Four Immeasurables (2021)

• Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Approaching the Buddhist Path (2020)

• Alan Wallace. Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up (2019)

• Thubten Chodron. Mind Training (2018)

• Alan Wallace. Teacher and Student (2016)

• Thubten Chodron. Breathing and Kindness (2016)

• Thubten Yeshe. Essence of Tibetan Buddhism (2013)

Editor

• Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions (2018)

Narrator (audio books)

• Lobsang Tenpa. Radical Tranquillity (2021)

• Thubten Chodron. Breathing and Kindness (2020)

• Lobsang Tenpa. Manual of Loving Kindness (2020)

• Alan Wallace. Four Immeasurables (2020)

• Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Approaching the Buddhist Path (2019)

• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Blazing Splendor (2019)

• Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions (2018)

• Karen Armstrong. 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life (2018)

Oral translations (select talks, retreats and courses)

• His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2016, Strasburg)

• His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ratna Vajra Rinpoche (2014, Paonta Sahib)

• Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (since 2017)

• Garchen Rinpoche (since 2016)

• Lama Zopa Rinpoche (since 2013)

• Mingyur Rinpoche (since 2017)

• Khandro Tseringma (since 2011)

• Geshe Ngawang Thugje (since 2010)

• Geshe Graham Woodhouse (since 2011)

• Venerable Robina Courtin (since 2011)

• Venerable Thubten Chodron (since 2012)

• Doctor Alan Wallace (since 2012)

• Doctor Alex Berzin (since 2011)

• Doctor Eva Natanya (since 2020)

• Doctor Eve Ekman (since 2020)

• Ondy Willson (since 2012)

• Andy Weber (since 2013)

• Tashi Mannox (since 2014)