Anand Venkatkrishnan Histories of Thoughts, Histories of Thinkers

About this episode

My guest this month is Anand Venkatkrishnan, Find some of his work here, here and here, and other interviews with him here and here.

Among the teachers he mentions are Sarasvati Mohan, Paul Harrison and Linda Hess

If you are interested in any of the texts mentioned in this episode, perhaps the following links will offer good starting points for the Mahāyāna Sūtras and especially the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchāsūtra, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Śiśupālavadha, Mālatīmādhava, Naiṣadhīyacarita and Mṛcchakaṭika.

Learn more about the wonderful language that is Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and about the various philosophical/intellectual movements mentioned: Vedānta and especially Advaita Vedānta, Mimāṃsā, Bhakti, and Intellectual History.