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Jinajik is 10

The longest-running weblog on the study of Buddhism is now ten years old.

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A cibhāḥ celebrates its c. 1300th anniversary (busādham̐) in the only Buddhist tradition continuously existing on the subcontinent. Thaina Tole, Lalitpur.
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Jinajik at 8

Jinajik, which celebrated its 8th birthday this month, hasn’t changed much over its 7th year. The most popular (though not necessarily the most useful) tag is still Tantric Buddhism. One new thing: visits from China are up about 300% over the past year. Welcome, Chinese friends!

Random pedestrian photobombs signage in Chaoyang, Beijing (Photo © I.S.)
Random pedestrian, Chaoyang, Beijing (Photo © I.S.)
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Administrivia: Brief end-of-year report

  • Traffic is up about 375% over last year, according to one metric. Many of the new visitors are sentient beings.
  • The top three countries from which readers visit Jinajik are the USA, Japan and Germany (not necessarily in that order). Great nations like the great yāna, it seems.
  • There may be no such thing as a free bhojana, but the lure of it is precisely what brings many of you here. The most clicked-on tag in 2011 is Sanskrit text, closely followed by PDF.
  • The most read article this year, by far, was last year’s announcement of Michael Allen’s The Daśakarma Vidhi. (For those who might want more, I have a short review forthcoming in the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.)
  • Complaints received in 2011: 0. Compliments received: 1. (A ratio that would please Mr. Micawber.)
New year fireworks, Melbourne, 2012.
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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