Dr. Mārcis Gasūns

Sanskrit Scholar · Lexicographer · Philologist · Digital Humanist

— Based in Russian Federation (originally Ogre, Latvia)
— gasyoun@gmail.com  — +7 (918) 1925-084
— GitHub: https://github.com/gasyoun
— LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marcisgasuns
— Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gasuns

PROFILE

Multilingual linguist and Sanskrit scholar with over 20 years of experience across lexicography, philology, NLP, and digital corpora. Author and editor of 14 printed works on Sanskrit (3834 pages total), including dictionaries, readers, and textbooks in Russian. Developed the first Russian–Sanskrit parallel corpus with semi-automated morphological markup. Active in education and public outreach via lectures, translations, YouTube videos, festivals, and teaching across institutions. Passionate about bridging ancient languages and modern technology. Founder or Sanskrit Zealots’ Society (2005) and Bibliotheca Sanscritica (2011).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics (2014)
Dissertation: “Состав и строй древнеиндийских корней” – 470 pages

M.A. in Literature, Gorky Literary Institute, Department of Literature (2006)

B.A. in Literature, Gorky Literary Institute (2004)

B.A. in English, University of Latvia, Faculty of English Philology (2001)

High School, Ogre Grammar School, Latvia (2001)

TEACHING (2024–2025)

At Sanskrit Zealot’s Society (Online & Offline – Russia/India/Worldwide)

— Devanāgarī (3x/week)
— Sanskrit Grammar (5x/week)
— Sanskrit Syntax (Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa – 1x/week each)
— Advanced Grammar, Chantings, Logic, Linguistics
— Commentaries (e.g., Viṣṇusahasranāma)
— Textual Study (e.g., Bhagavadgītā, Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṁhitā)

PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS

Parallel Russian–Sanskrit Corpus (GitHub, since 2009): https://samskrtam.ru/parallel-corpus

Books: 14 publications in Russian on Sanskrit totaling 3834 pages (textbooks, dictionaries, readers)

Article: «Problems of Interpretation of Traditional Indian Texts», Zograf Readings XLIV, 2023

Sanskrit Grammar Courses at the Russian State Library & Voloshin Library

Lectures on Sanskrit, Mahābhārata Onomastics, and Historical Linguistics (e.g., Zaliznjak Readings)

SELECTED MEDIA & PUBLIC APPEARANCES

— Observer (Smotrim.ru) — Porus & Indian Epic

— Interview: “Natural Intelligence” (YouTube, 19k views)

— 7th ISCLS, Sanskrit Research Institute (with students)

— Lingva Festival, Moscow (2023)

— TVBRICS Expert, Planeta.ru presenter, DENTV speaker

LANGUAGES

Modern: Latvian, Russian, English, German (fluent); French (basic)

Classical: Sanskrit, Old Persian, Latin (written); Ancient Greek, Tocharian A, Old Church Slavonic

DIGITAL SKILLS

Programming: HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, SQLite, MySQL

CMS: Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, TextPattern

Corpus Tools: OCR, NLP tools, Sanskrit markup automation

MEMBERSHIPS

Writers’ Union of Russia (since 2004)

Russian Association of Rhetoric Researchers (since 2006)

Society of Russian Orientalists, RAS (since 2004)

LINKS & RESOURCES

Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_русскоязычных_санскритологов

Buddhist Translators Profile: https://buddhist-translations.ru/translators/1439-marcis-gasuns.html

Russian State Library Course: https://www.rsl.ru/ru/events/afisha/lections/pismennost-devanagari

News: https://takiedela.ru/notes/spasti-berestyanye-gramoty/