The thought of Girard is beginning to infiltrate Asian countries. This is the site of Korean professor Ilkwaen Chung, for example, who have begun to explore the origins of Buddhist through the lens of Girardian theory. He asks many fascination questions like, “Is Buddha a scapegoat?” Professor Chung is perhaps the foremost Girardian scholar in South Korea, and those seeking to understand mimetic theory in Asia should explore this website, even though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in quite a while (since 2017).
