Seven young scholars and doctoral students gave their short accounts such as Dr V.P. Ivanov (on early sources on Indian Tantra), Dr A.V. Zorin (on a Tibetan ms from the 13th century), M.A. Redina (on Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets), E.I. Serova (on Persian mss), D.A. Nosov (on Mongolian mss and block-prints), A.E. Terekhov (on Old Chinese literature, especially some apocrypha), Dr S.Kh. Shomakhmadov (on a Sanskrit ms from the Petrovsky collection).