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early Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhist thought in India, postcolonial theory and the study of India, theory and method in the study of religions, capitalism and the commodification of Asian knowledge systems
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Books 1. Richard King, Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism: The Mahayana Context of the Gaudapadiya-karika , US Edition: State University of New York Press, 341pp, 1995 Indian Edition: Vedam Books, 1997 2. Richard King, Indian Philosophy. An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought UK Edition: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 224pp. US Edition: Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2000, Indian Edition: Deep and Deep Publications, 2002 3. Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'the Mystic East', US / UK Edition: London and New York: Routledge, 328pp, 1999; Indian Edition: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000; Indonesian Edition: Jakarta: Qalam Press, 2003 (title: Agama, Orientalisme dan Poskolonial)) 4. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Selling Spirituality. The Silent Takeover of Religion, UK/US Edition: London and New York, Routledge, 2005. Articles "Early Yogacara and Its Relationship with the Madhyamaka School" in Philosophy East and West Vol 44.4 (December 1994): 659-686. This article is available on the web as part of the Digital Buddhist Library (based at Heidelberg and National Taiwan Universities). The URL for the article is: http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/king.htm "Is Buddha-Nature Buddhist? Doctrinal Tensions in the Srimala Sutra - An Early Tathagatagarbha Text" in Numen. The Journal of the International Association for the History of Religions XLII. No.1 (1995): 1-20. "Early Advaita Vedanta: The Date and Authorship of the Gaudapadiya-karika" in Indo-Iranian Journal 38: 317-355, 1995 "Vijnaptimatrata and the Abhidharma Context of Early Yogacara" in Asian Philosophy Vol 8. No.1: 5-17, March 1998 This article is available on the web as part of the Digital Buddhist Library. The URL for the article is: http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/richard.htm "Orientalism and the Modern Myth of Hinduism": in Numen. Vol XLVI, No.2, Spring 1999: 146-85. "Cartographies of the Imagination, Legacies of Colonialism: The Discourse of Religion and the Mapping of Indic Traditions" in Evam. Forum on Indian Representations Vol 3, Nos. 1 and 2: 272-89, January 2004.
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