User:Lotus in the hills

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Sten Konow
He does not have a Wikipedia page, as far as I know. Another famous Orientalist and former Indian Government Epigraphist to work on! -Lotus 22:18, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Orientalists and WWII
Planning on working on the Erich Frauwallner page and creating a page for Otto Stein. I think it will be an interesting task, juxtaposing an Orientalist who supported the Nazis with one who died in a Jewish ghetto. -Lotus 19:57, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Textual accounts of ācāra
Added a small section with textual references to local custom from Dharmaśāstra texts to the ācāra entry. -Lotus 06:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Renunciation in the Dharmaśāstras
I'm adding a section to the Sannyasin page about rules governing renunciation in Dharma literature. There is already a brief "Applications" section on the page, which could use revision. -Lotus 19:35, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Monarchy in Ancient India
Just created the Monarchy in Ancient India page, more on kingship in the Dharmaśāstras to go up soon! -Lotus 20:13, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

My Sandbox
Just set up my own sandbox here.

-Lotus 03:35, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hindu Law Editing Project
This Fall, I will be taking part in a Uni versi ty of Wisco sin-Madison  project to edit Wikipedia articles on Hindu Law. Other folks on my team:

Badgerblueliner SadieBean Anelson4 -Lotus 17:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Diamer-Bhasha Dam
Just added a section to the Diamer-Bhasha Dam article about the recent discovery of Buddhist relics there.

-Lotus 11:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Tambiah Article
Hmmm...the article for Stanley Tambiah doesn't really make much mention of his work on Buddhism. Maybe that needs to be remedied...

-Lotus 21:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Fig-eating Slop
Hooray! It looks like the Richard Gombrich article has been cured of its sickeningly sycophantic tone.

-Lotus 16:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Back at it
The J. W. de Jong article seems to be finishing up pretty nicely; the Gombrich article needs to be completely retooled. In the mean time, here's a brief hit list of Indologists who still don't have pages:


 * Helmuth von Glasenapp
 * J.Ph. Vogel
 * Erich Frauwallner
 * Otto Strauss
 * Otto Stein
 * Oskar von Hinüber
 * Bimala C. Law
 * Padmanabh S. Jaini

And a list of some Indologist articles which barely make it to stub status:


 * Hermann Oldenberg
 * Paul Deussen
 * K. R. Norman
 * Moriz Winternitz
 * Louis Renou
 * Sylvain Lévi
 * Étienne Lamotte

-Lotus 17:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

A bit of a quandary...
I've been working on biographical articles for scholars in Buddhist Studies for a while now, and just lately I've run into the problem of how to group them all. I've simply been categorizing them as "Indologists" since no "Buddhologist" category exists and I'm hesitant to create one. As it stands now, some scholars are found under lists of "Orientalists," some under lists of "Tibetologists," and some under "Indologists." All of these categories have there problems (Indology and Tibetology are plagued by the usual demons which trouble categories in Area Studies, Orientalism is now a wicked thing and I don't think that the title of "Orientalist" can be rehabilitated without a good deal of effort). So...any ideas? -Lotus 00:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


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