Victoria Lysenko (1953 — ) received her Ph.D. (1982) and D.Litt (1998) degrees from the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), where she presently works as a research professor at the Centre of Oriental Philosopies. Among her publications are five books on Vaisheshika and Early Buddhism and around 200 papers on different subjects of Indian philosophy in Russian, English and French. She has translated into Russian Prashastapada’s Padarthadharmasamgraha with Nyayakandali of Sridhara.