Ludmila S. Dampilova

Doctor of Philology,

Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia), Head Researcher of the Department of Literature and Folklore

Scientific interests

General problems of folklore studies of the peoples of Siberia, mythological semantics and poetics of ritual folklore, the phenomenon of the sacred and the problem of the symbol in ritual folklore, topical problems of modern literary processes in Buryatia, comparative studies of folklore and literature of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0917-5432

WOS Research ID U-3608-2019

Scopus Author ID 57148377900

ID РИНЦ 163480

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Brief scientific biography

Graduated from the Irkutsk State University. A. A. Zhdanova in 1976 with a degree in Philology, a teacher of the Russian language and literature. Candidate's dissertation: "Oriental artistic traditions in Buryat poetry" (1997). Doctoral dissertation: "Shamanic chants of the Buryats: symbolism and poetics" (2006). Since 2003 to the present - Senior, Leading, Chief Researcher, Head, Project Coordinator of the Literary and Folklore Department of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Scientific and organizational activity

L. S. Dampilova was the head and executor of the projects of the Russian Humanitarian Foundation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Humanitarian Foundation-Mongolia, the head of the Laboratory of Siberian and the Far Eastern Verbal Cultures under the grant of the Government of the Russian Federation for state support of scientific research conducted under the guidance of leading scientists (agreement No. 075-15-2019-1884) of the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019–2021). L. S. Dampilova is the leader and participant of international complex research expeditions in Buryatia, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (PRC).

Teaching profession

In 1987–2003 - Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Department of World Literature of the East Siberian State Institute of Culture, Ulan-Ude. Under the guidance of L. S. Dampilova, 6 candidate’s dissertations theses were prepared for defense.

Main publications

Dampilova L. S., Khabunova E. E. Syuzhet o bogatyrskom srazhenii v buryatskikh versiyakh eposa o Gesere [The plot of heroic battle in buryat versions of epos about Geser]. Nauchnyi dialog. 2020. No. 7. Pp. 241–253. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S., Tsybikova B.-Kh. B. Obryad zameshcheniya dushi v shamanskoy praktike buryat [The ceremony of replacement of soul in shaman practice of the Buryats]. Siberian Philological Journal. 2020. No. 1. Pp. 49–57. (In Russ.).

Sundueva E. V., Nikolaeva N. N., Dampilova L. S. Metamorfozy mifologicheskikh personazhey v obryadovykh deystviyakh tyurko-mongol'skikh narodov [Metamorphoses of mythological personages in the ritual actions of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples]. Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2019. No. 2 (24). Pp. 179–189. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S. Mify i istoriya v “Tengrianskikh pesnyakh” Baira Dugarova [“The Tengri songs” by Bair Dugarov: myth and history]. Oriental Studies (Previous Name: Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences). 2019. Vol. 41. Iss. 1. Pp. 149–156. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S. Funktsii mifologicheskogo personazha v sovremennykh khozyaystvennykh obryadakh buryat [Functions of mythological character in present-day household ceremony]. Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2019. No. 1 (23). Pp. 105–112. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S., Khabunova E. E., Zaayaasuren Ch. Toponim Altay v motive puti v epose mongol'skogo naroda [The epic tradition of Mongolic peoples: toponym 'Altai' in the motif of the way]. Oriental Studies (Previous Name: Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences). 2018. Vol. 39. Iss. 5. Pp. 166–173. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S. Igra v obryadovom sobytii mongol'skikh narodov [Game in the ritual event of the Mongolian peoples Ritual]. Siberian Philological Journal. 2018. No. 2. Pp. 33–39. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. Osobennosti stikhoslozheniya v russkoyazychnoy buryatskoy poezii [The features of Versification in the Russian-language Buryat poetry]. The New Philological Bulletin. 2017. No. 2 (41). Pp. 69–77. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S. Semantika originala i perevoda v poezii narodov Sibiri [The semantics of original and translation texts of the poetry of the peoples of Siberia]. Siberian Philological Journal. 2016. No. 4. Pp. 122–128. (In Russ.).

Dampilova L. S., Sundueva E. V. The semantics of the word khairkhan in a Turkic-Mongolian Ritual Event. Türkbilig. 2015. No. 29. Pp. 77–87. (In Eng.).