Administrivia: Hiatus & Linkdump

Visits have almost tripled this year. Nonetheless, save some of that bandwidth: Jinajik will be on hiatus while I do stuff for the next two weeks or so. Some nidhi to fill the break:

Dissertations & Papers

Erich Gundlach and Matthias Opfinger (2011). ‘Religiosity as a Determinant of Happiness’. https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/handle/10419/48360 [“Our interpretation of the empirical results is that the indifference curves for religiosity and other commodities of the utility function are hump-shaped.”]

Kevin McCraney (2011). ‘You’re A Bodhisattva All The Time: An Exploration of Buddho-Catholic Syncretism in the Works of Jack Kerouac’. https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/48976

Matthew Roe Dasti (2010). ‘Rational belief in classical India: Nyaya’s epistemology and defense of theism’. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-757

Jenny Hua-Chen Lin (2010). ‘Crushed pearls: The revival and transformation of the Buddhist nuns’ order in Taiwan’. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61955

Hyne, Amy Louise (2009). ‘Ascetics behaving madly: on the role of the unmatta in ancient Indian ascetic traditions’ [unpublished M.A. thesis] http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b7261598~S29

A. Fadzakir (2001). ‘The Muslims of Kathmandu: A study of religious identity in a Hindu Kingdom’. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5288

Books:

林光明(編著) (2011)《梵漢對音初探》 [A survey on Sino-Sanskrit transcription] http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010502929

立川武蔵 (2011) 『曼陀羅のほとけたち』 https://www.senri-f.or.jp/FS-Shop/wwb/item/199-139123.html

Other:

本庄良文先生作成 チベット語訳『倶舎論実義疏』ノート http://www2.otani.ac.jp/~akio/wiki/index.php

Last, but by no means least:

Luther Obrock (2005). ‘Honor and Shame in Greek and Sanskrit Epics’.
http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_interstp3/52