South Asia

United States of America

Vanderbilt University

richard.king@vanderbilt.edu

Religious Studies
Vanderbilt University
VU Box 351556
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235 USA

India

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

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.

Advaita Vedanta ; Mahayana Buddhist ; India ; religion ; capitalism ; commodification ; Asia.