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| thesis1_title = Глагол в тибетском языке VII–XI вв. (The Verb in the Tibetan Language, 7th-11th centuries)
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'''Margarita Iosifovna Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya''' ({{lang-ru|Маргари́та Ио́сифовна Воробьёва-Деся́товская}}; 28 January 1933 – 13 June 2021) was a Russian Orientalist best known for her research on Central Asian manuscripts in the [[Sanskrit]], [[Saka language|Khotanese]] and [[Scythian languages|Scythian]] languages. She retired as Curator of Central Asian manuscripts at the Institute of Oriental Studies, [[Saint Petersburg]].

==Life==
Margarita Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya was born in Leningrad in 1933. She took her Indologist husband, Vladimir Vorobyov-Desyatovsky's last name upon marriage.

In 1950, she began studies at the Indian department of the Oriental School of the [[Saint Petersburg State University|Leningrad State University]], transferring to the Leningrad branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oriental Studies. She obtained her candidate of science degree in 1966 with a dissertation on [[Tibetan grammar]].

She worked as a senior researcher in the Tibetan division of the school, later joining the South and South-east Asian division. From 1982 to 2005, she was the head of the department of manuscripts of the school.

Her jubilee was celebrated in the Institute in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3211&Itemid=137|author=I.F. Popov|title=Юбилей М.И.Воробьевой-Десятовской|date=28 January 2013|publisher=Institute of Oriental Studies|accessdate=20 July 2019}}</ref> She retired in 2014.

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya died on 13 June 2021 at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14158&Itemid=48|title=Скончалась М.И.Воробьева-Десятовская |publisher=Institute of Oriental Studies|date=15 June 2021|accessdate=18 June 2021|language=Russian}}</ref>

==Academics==
Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya focussed on Buddhist manuscripts as well as documents in Sanskrit, Khotanese and Scythian languages from East Turkestan, which were brought to Russia by 19th century expeditioners such as [[Sergey Oldenburg]], [[Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky]] and [[Pyotr Kozlov]]. Manuscripts were also obtained from [[Khara-Khoto]] and [[Dunhuang]]. These formed the basis for the large collection of Central Asian manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Studies.

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya published inscriptions from the [[Kara Tepe]] Buddhist monastery near [[Termez]],<ref name="DaniLitvinsky1996">{{cite encyclopedia|editor1=Ahmad Hasan Dani|editor2=B. A. Litvinsky|author1=A.H. Dani|author2=B.A. Litvinsky|title=The Kushano-Sasanian kingdom|encyclopedia=History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations, A.D. 250 to 750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=883OZBe2sMYC&pg=PA118|year=1996|publisher=UNESCO|isbn=978-92-3-103211-0|pages=118}}</ref> as well as Mahayana texts from [[Turfan]].<ref name="Sen2014">{{cite book|editor=Tansen Sen|title=Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange| volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_ZXBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|year=2014|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-4519-32-8|pages=149}}</ref> She also published the Bairam-Ali manuscripts from the [[Merv]] oasis, a collection of [[Jataka tales|Jataka]]-type tales in the Brahmi script dated to between the 2nd and 5th centuries AD.<ref name="LenzGlass2003">{{cite book|author1=Timothy Lenz|author2=Andrew Glass|author3=Dharmamitra (Bhikshu.)|title=A New Version of the Gāndhārī Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-birth Stories: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 16 + 25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALZnXwZYlckC&pg=PA94|year=2003|publisher=University of Washington |isbn=978-0-295-98308-0|pages=94}}</ref>

==Selected works==
===Monographs===
* {{cite book|title=The Kasyapaparivarta. Romanized Text and Facsimiles|location=Tokyo|year=2002|publisher=Soka University}}
* {{cite book|title=The Hindu Pantheon: An Introduction, Illustrated with 19th Century Indian Miniatures from the St. Petersburg Collection|year=1994|publisher=Garnet|isbn=978-1873938478}}
* {{cite book|title=История Бхадры |year=1956|publisher=Nauka|location=Moscow}}

===Articles===
* {{cite journal|title=The prospects of the Lotus Sutra's study in context of the history of Buddhist philosophical thought|journal=Proceedings of the 37th International Congress of Orientalists|year=2004}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=История отечественного востоковедения (до середины 19 века)|title=Становление индологии в России|year=1990|location=Moscow|publisher=Nauka}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Рукописи в культуре народов Востока.|editor=Y.A. Petrosyan|year=1988|title=Рукописи в культуре Индии|location=Moscow|publisher=Nauka}}

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_personalities&Itemid=74&person=79 M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts]

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