For this assignment you are asked to reflect upon the ways in which Hindu and Bu

For this assignment you are asked to reflect upon the ways in which Hindu and Buddhist images and ideas have become a part of American pop culture. Students are assigned to find something—whether it be a meme, a gif, a song lyric, an album cover, or whatever—that uses Hindu or Buddhist material (for example, Jimi Hendrix’s album, Axis: Bold as Love, features a picture of Jimi as the god Krishna in an iconic scene from the Bhagavad Gita (and, obviously, don’t use this example!!)). With your image/meme/lyric in hand, write a 300-word reflection essay on it. Why does this image exist? What is its significance? And what does it say about the relationship between Indian traditions and American pop culture?