Boris L. Oguibénine was educated in the Moscow State University. He has been on the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow before lecturing at the University of Vienna (Austria) and joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the University of Strasbourg of which he is the Emeritus since 2009. His interests are Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology.
His chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are:
Initiation pratique à l'étude du sanskrit bouddhique, Paris: Picard, 1996.
B. Oguibénine with Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki, Prātimokṣasūtram. Word Index and ReverseWord Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2001 (PhilologicaAsiatica, Monograph Series 17).
B. Oguibénine with E. Fauré, Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki) Mahāvastu-Avadāna. WordIndex and Reverse Word Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2009 (Philologica Asiatica, Monograph Series 25).
A Descriptive Grammar of Buddhist Sanskrit. The language of the Textual Tradition of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottoravādins. General Introduction. Sound Patterns. Sandhi Patterns. Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2016.