Ekaterina Sobkovyak

Ekaterina Sobkovyak graduated from the Department of Tibetan-Mongolian Philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (BA in 2006), and the Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples at the Warsaw State University, Poland (MA in 2009). She holds a PhD (2014) in the field of Central Asian cultural studies from the University of Bern, Switzerland, where her thesis was devoted to the Mongolian Buddhist monastic tradition and Mongolian translation of the canonical text which forms the basis of Buddhist monasticism, that is the Prātimokṣasūtra. In 2011 and 2016, Ekaterina worked as a lecturer of Classical Mongolian at the University of Bern. In 2011–2014, she participated as a research associate in an international collaborative research project The Ganjur Colophons in Comparative Analysis supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Her current research project at the MPIWG deals with the history of transmission of the popular Chinese astro-divination almanac The Notes of the Jade Box (玉匣記 Yu Xia Ji) to the Mongolian society and its adaptation to the Mongolian cultural environment.