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In this essay, I examine the Indian religious traditions associated with the Vedas (India’s oldest religious literature), the philosophical commentary of the Upaniṣads and the teachings of the non-dualistic Advaita Vedānta school, and the heterodox traditions of Buddhism and Jainism. I will focus on notions of imitation, desire, and sacrifice, with the idea that these aspects of the traditions are the best place to look for intersections with Girard’s work.
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Collins, Brian. The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014.
Gombrich, Richard F. How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006.
Jamison, Stephanie and Joel P. Brereton, trans. The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India. Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Patton, Laurie L. Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2005.
Shulman, David. More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Collins, B. (2017). The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads. In: Alison, J., Palaver, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53825-3_15
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