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Upaniṣadic Echoes in the Alaggadūpama Sutta

Jones, Dhivan Thomas
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Scholars have already identified verbal echoes of the Upaniṣads in the Alagaddūpama Sutta (‘Discourse on the Simile of the Water-snake’, M 22 pts i.130–42). In this article I argue that the Alagaddūpama Sutta also contains muffled verbal echoes of the famous story of Indra’s search for the self in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.7–12. By making this echo audible, I add to the evidence that the Alagaddūpama Sutta as a whole can be understood in terms of the Buddha’s rejection of an Upaniṣadic soteriology.
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Jones, Dhivan Thomas (2020). Upaniṣadic Echoes in the Alagaddūpama Sutta. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 19, 79–102.
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Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
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Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
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