Jones, Dhivan Thomas2020-12-022020-12-022020-11Jones, Dhivan Thomas (2020). Upaniṣadic Echoes in the Alagaddūpama Sutta. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 19, 79–102.http://hdl.handle.net/10034/624029Scholars 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.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/BuddhismPāli canonUpaniṣadsArticleJournal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies