About

Dr. Deepak Sarma, professor of Indian religions and philosophy and the Inaugural Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader (2011), Hinduism: A Reader (2008), Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta (2005) and An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta (2003).

They were a guest curator of Indian Kalighat Paintings, an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. They are a curatorial consultant for the Department of Asian Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

After earning a BA in religion from Reed College, Sarma attended the University of Chicago Divinity School, where they received a PhD in the philosophy of religions and specialized in Indian philosophy. Sarma has wondered if experiences are real or not and if perceptions are merely projections on an underlying undifferentiated and real substrate. Their own congenital epistemic confusion, compounded by a TBI in 1995, led to reflections about mysticism, consciousness and psychedelics. Sarma writes and researches about psychedelics, Cultural Theory, philosophy, post-colonial studies, museology, the Grateful Dead, “Hinduism,” contemporary Hinduism, bioethics, and Madhva Vedanta. Verily, their job is to shed light and not to master.

 

Prof. Sarma’s Publications:

https://case.academia.edu/DeepakSarma

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