Dony Sinanda Putra

What connects twenty-two years of insurance risk to a book on Dharmic identity misrecognition, a research program in the psychology of religion, and a deep contemplative practice? A single question that recurs in every domain: how do human beings decide what is real, what is valuable, and what deserves to be protected?

In insurance, that question takes the form of a pricing problem — what is worth protecting, and how do you calibrate the cost of losing it? In Buddhist KTP, it becomes a sociological and psychological problem — how does a society decide which traditions are legitimate, and at what cost to those it fails to recognize? In Beyond Tolerance, it becomes a formal research question — what psychological capacities does genuine inter-religious recognition require? In astrology, it becomes a pattern problem — how do humans construct meaning from celestial structure, and what do those constructions reveal about the human need for coherence?