Professor Jonathan Silk - Publications
Jonathan Silk | Books and Monographs
2015
2015 Buddhist Cosmic Unity: An Edition, Translation and Study of the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa–parivarta. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 4 (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press).
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2008
2008 b Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).
Reissued by Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 2009. Reviewed by: Douglas Osto, H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews. October, 2009. URL: http://www.h-net.org/ reviews/showrev.php?id=24502 Amy Paris Langenberg in Religious Studies Review 35/4 (Dec. 2009): 311-312.
2008 a Managing Monks: Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism. (New York: Oxford University Press).
Reviewed by: Petra Kieffer-Pülz, Indo-Iranian Journal 53/1 (2010): 71-88.
2006
2006 Body Language: Indic Śarīra and Chinese shèlì in the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra and Saddharma-pundarīka. Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series XIX (Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies)
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Reviewed by: Karel Werner, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (2009): 264-267.
2000
2000 Wisdom, Compassion, and the Search for Understanding: The Buddhist Studies Legacy of Gadjin M. Nagao. J. A. Silk, ed. Studies in the Buddhist Traditions 3 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).
Reissued as: Buddhist Studies: The Legacy of Gadjin M. Nagao. Wisdom, Compassion and The Search for Understanding (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008).
Reviewed by: Tom Tillemans, The Eastern Buddhist 33/1 (2001): 181-185.
1994
1994 The Heart Sutra in Tibetan: A Critical Edition of the Two Recensions Contained in the Kanjur. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismus Kunde 34 (Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien).
Reviewed by: Ulrich Pagel, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59/2 (1996): 388-389; J. W. de Jong, Indo-Iranian Journal 40/3 (1997): 275-278; Shinjō Kawasaki 川崎信定, Tōyō Gakuhō 東洋学報 82/3 (2000): 1-6 (456-451); Mark Tatz, Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1 (2003): 264-265.
1989
1989 Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts. Edited, with Luis Gómez. Michigan Studies in Buddhist Literature 1 (Ann Arbor: Collegiate Insti¬tute for the Study of Buddhist Literature and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan).
Reviewed by: Alex Wayman, Journal of the American Oriental Society 110/3 (1990): 544-546; K. R. Norman, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1990): 408-410; T. Skorupski, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 54/2 (1991): 384-385; Hajime Sakurabe, Eastern Buddhist (1993) 26/1: 135-138; Philosophy East and West 43/1 (1993): 158; F. Tola and C. Dragonetti, Revista de Estudios Budistas 6 (1994): 163-164.
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Jonathan Silk | Articles
2014
2014a “Keeping Up With the Joneses: From William Jones to John James Jones.” Sōka Daigaku Kokusai Bukkyōgaku Kōtō Kenkyūjo Nenpō 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報/Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 17: 427-441.
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2014b “Taking the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Seriously.” Sōka Daigaku Kokusai Bukkyōgaku Kōtō Kenkyūjo Nenpō 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報/ Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 17: 157-188.
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2014c “Out of the East: Tibetan Scripture Translations from Chinese.” Bod rig pai’ dus deb / Zangxue xuekan 藏學學刊 / Journal of Tibetology 9: 29–36.
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2013
2013 a "Buddhist Sūtras in Sanskrit from the Potala." Indo Iranian Journal 56: 61-87.
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Review article on Bhikṣuṇī Vinītā, A unique collection of twenty sūtras in a Sanskrit manuscript from the Potala: Editions and translation [Sanskrit texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region ] (Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House / Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010).
2013 b "The Proof is in the Pudding: What is Involved in Editing and Translating a Mahāyāna Sūtra?" ?” Indo Iranian Journal 56: 157-178.
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Review article on Lozang Jamspal, The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra (Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara): The Teachings of the Nirgrantha Satyaka. Introduction and Translation. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series (New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies / Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies / Tibet House US, 2010), and Critical Tibetan Edition. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series (New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies / Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies / Tibet House US, 2010).
2013c “The Nature of the Verses of the Kāśyapaparivarta.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 23 (Evo ṣuyadi: Essays in Honor of Richard Salomon’s 65th Birthday): 181-190.
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2012
2012 a "Kern and the Study of Indian Buddhism: With a Speculative Note on the Ceylonese Dhammarucikas." Journal of the Pali Text Society 31: 125-154.
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2012b "A Missed Opportunity." History of Religions 51/3: 262-272.
Review article on K. Buffetrille and D. S. Lopez, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, by E. Burnouf (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
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2010
2010 b "Test Sailing the Ship of the Teachings: Hesitant Notes on Kāśyapaparivarta §153-154." In Eli Franco and Monika Zin, eds., From Turfan to Ajanta: Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eighteeth Birthday. Lumbini : Lumbini International Research Institute, 2010: II. 897-924.
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2010 a "The Jifayue sheku tuoluoni jing — Translation, Non-translation, Both or Neither?" Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30/1-2 [2008 date, published 2010]: 369-420.
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2009
2009 b "A Small Problem of Tense and Person: Dhammapada 306 and Its Parallels." Journal of the Pali Text Society 30:161-176.
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2009 a "Remarks on the Kāśyapaparivarta Commentary." In Martin Straube, Roland Steiner, Jayandra Soni, Michael Hahn und Mitsuyo Demoto, eds., Pāsādikadānam: Festschrift für Bhikkhu Pāsādika (Indica et Tibetica 52) (Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag): 381-397.
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2008
2008 h "The Story of Dharmaruci: In the Divyāvadāna and Ksemendra's Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā." Indo Iranian Journal 51: 137-185.
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2008 g "Lies, Slander and the Study of Buddhism." Inaugural lecture delivered 1 April, 2008, at Leiden University (Leiden: Universiteit Leiden).
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2008 f "Maternity Homes and Abandoned Children in Buddhist India." Journal of the American Oriental Society 127/3: 297-314.
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2008 e "Putative Persian Perversities: Buddhist Condemnations of Zoroastrian Close-Kin Marriage in Context." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 71/3: 433-464.
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2008 d "The Indian Buddhist Mahādeva in Tibetan Sources." Indo Tetsugaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū インド哲学仏教学研究 / Studies in Indian Philosophy and Buddhism 15: 27-55.
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2008 c "Forbidden Women: A Peculiar Buddhist Reference." In Peter Zieme, ed., Aspects of Research into Central Asian Buddhism. In memorium Kōgi Kudara. Silk Road Studies 16 (Turnhout: Brepols): 371-378.
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2008 b "Incestuous Ancestries: On the Family Origins of Gautama Siddhārtha, Interpretations of Genesis 20.12, and the Status of Scripture in Buddhism." History of Religions 47/4: 253-281.
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2008 a "*Parikarsati Reconsidered." Sōka Daigaku Kokusai Bukkyōgaku Kōtō Kenkyūjo Nenpō 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報 / Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Sōka University 11: 61-69.
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2007
2007 c "Garlanding as Sexual Invitation: Indian Buddhist Evidence." Indo-Iranian Journal 50: 5-10.
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2007 b "Good and Evil in Indian Buddhism: The Five Sins of Immediate Retribution." Journal of Indian Philosophy 35/3: 253-286.
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2007 a "Bauddhavacana: Notes on Buddhist Vocabulary." Sōka Daigaku Kokusai Bukkyōgaku Kōtō Kenkyūjo Nenpō 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報 / Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Sōka University 10: 171-179.
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2006
2006 "Xuanzang's Portrayal of the Buddhist Mahādeva." In Mochizuki Kaishuku 望月海淑 ed., Hokekyō to Daijō Kyōten no Kenkyū 法華経と大乗経典の研究 (Tokyo: Sankibō busshorin 山喜房佛書林): 193-213 (622-602).
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2004
2004 b "Dressed for Success: The Monk Kāśyapa and Strategies of Legitimation in Earlier Mahāyāna Buddhist Scriptures." Journal Asiatique 291/1-2 (dated 2003; actually published Oct. 2004): 173-219.
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2004 a "Wisdom and Compassion" and "A Sūtra for Long Life." In Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., Buddhist Scriptures (London: Penguin Books): 350-360; 423-429.
Translations from the Kāśyapaparivarta (excerpts) and Aparimitāyurjñāna (complete).
2003
2003 "The Fruits of Paradox: On the Religious Architecture of the Buddha's Life Story." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71/4: 863-881.
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2002
2002 d "What, If Anything, is Mahāyāna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and Classifications." Numen 49/4: 355-405.
Reprinted in Paul Williams, ed., Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. Vol. 3, The Origins and Nature of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Some Mahāyāna Religious Topics (London: Routledge, 2005): 368-404.
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2002 c "Cui bono? or Follow the Money: Identifying the Sophist in a Pāli Commentary." In Publication Committee for Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodō Mori, ed., Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodō Mori (Hamamatsu: Kokusai Bukkyoto Kyokai): 129-183.
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2002 b "Possible Indian Sources for the Term Tshad ma'i skyes bu as Pramānapurusa." Journal of Indian Philosophy 30/2: 111-160.
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2002 a "Naze Kashō wa Daijō kyōten no shuyō tōjō jinbutsu ni natta no ka" 何故迦葉は大乗経典の主要登場人物になったのか [Why did Kāśyapa become a prominent figure in Mahāyāna scriptures?].
Sakurabe Hajime Hakase Kiju Kinen Ronshū kankōkai 櫻部建博士喜寿記念論集刊行会 ed., Sakurabe Hajime Hakase Kiju Kinen Ronshū Shoki Bukkyō kara Abidaruma e 櫻部建博士喜寿記念論集 初期仏教からアビダルマへ / Early Buddhism and Abhidharma Thought: In Honor of Doctor Hajime Sakurabe on His Seventy-seventh Birthday (Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten 平楽寺書店): 155-170.
An abbreviated Japanese translation (by Satoshi Hiraoka 平岡聡) of B 2004a.
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2001
2001 b "Contributions to the Study of the Philosophical Vocabulary of Mahāyāna Buddhism." The Eastern Buddhist 33/1: 144-168.
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2001 a "The Place of the Lotus Sūtra in Indian Buddhism." Journal of Oriental Philosophy 11: 89-107.
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2000
2000 c "The Yogācāra Bhiksu." In A 2000: 265-314.
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2000 b "Kanmuryōjukyō no seiritsu ni kansuru mondai: Jyainakyō seiten o tegakari toshite" 観無量寿経の成立に関する問題: ジャイナ教聖典を手がかりとして [The Composition of the Guan Wuliangshoufo-jing]. In Yamada Meiji 山田明爾, ed., Yamada Meiji Kyōju Kanreki Kinen Ronbunshū: Sekai Bunka to Bukkyō 山田明爾教授還暦記念論文集『世界文化と仏教』 (Kyoto: Nagata Bunshōdō 永田文昌堂): 131–155.
A Japanese translation (by Satoshi Hiraoka 平岡聡) of a portion of B: 1997a.
2000 a "Indo ni okeru Hokekyō no ichi" インドにおける『法華経』の位置 [The place of the Lotus Sūtra in Indian Buddhism]. Tōyō Gakujutsu Kenkyū 東洋学術研究 39/2: 220-198 (1-23).
Joint translation by the author and Nobuyuki Yamagiwa 山極伸之 of B: 2001b.
1999
1999 b "Marginal Notes on a Study of Buddhism, Economy and Society in China." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 22/2: 359–396.
Remarks on Jacques Gernet, Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. Translated by Franciscus Verellen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
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1999 a Introduction to Alexander von Staël-Holstein's Article "On a Peking Edition of the Tibetan Kanjur Which Seems to be Unknown in the West," edited for publication by JAS. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 22/1: 211-249.
This article was originally written in 1934, printed, but never published. Jonathan Silk edited the article, and added an introduction and copious notes correcting, bringing up to date and clarifying the original article.
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1997
1997 b "The Composition of the Guan Wuliangshoufo-jing: Some Buddhist and Jaina Parallels to its Narrative Frame." Journal of Indian Philosophy 25/2: 181-256.
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1997 a "Further remarks on the yogācāra bhiksu." In Bhikkhu Pāsādika and Bhikkhu Tampalawela Dhammaratana, eds., Dharmadūta: Mélanges offerts au Vénérable Thích Huyên-Vi à l'occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire (Paris: Éditions You Feng): 233-250.
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1996
1996 "Notes on the History of the Yongle Kanjur." In M. Hahn, J-U. Hartmann and R. Steiner, eds., Suhr̥llekha: Festgabe für Helmut Eimer. Indica et Tibetica 28 (Swisttal-Odendorf, Germany: Indica et Tibetica Verlag): 153-200.
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1994
1994 "The Victorian Creation of Buddhism." Journal of Indian Philosophy 22: 171-196.
Review article of: Ph. Almond, The British discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge, 1988).
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1993
1993 "The Virtues of Amitābha: A Tibetan Poem from Dunhuang." Ryūkoku Daigaku Bukkyō Bunka Kenkyūjo Kiyō 龍谷大學佛教文化研究所紀要 32: 1-109.
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1992
1992 "A Bibliography on Ancient Indian Slavery." Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16/17: 277-285.
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1989
1989 "A Note on the Opening Formula of Buddhist Sūtras." The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 12/1: 158-163.
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Jonathan Silk | Reviews and Translations
2013
2013 Review of Anālayo, The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 1 (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, 2010). Indo-Iranian Journal 56: 193-199.
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2012
2012 b Review of Harry Falk and Walter Slaje, eds., Oskar von Hinüber: Kleine Schriften. Teil I-II. Veröffentlichungen der Hellmuth von Glasenapp-Stiftung 47. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 54 (2011-2012): 233-235.
2012 a Review of Jin-il Chung, A Survey of the Sanskrit fragments Corresponding to the Chinese Samyuktāgama [Zōagonkyō sōtō bonbun danpen ichiran] (雜阿含經相當梵文斷片一覽). Tōkyō: Sankibō Busshorin 山喜房佛書林, 2008. Indo-Iranian Journal 55: 92-96.
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2011
2011 Review of Berkwitz, Stephen C., South Asian Buddhism: A Survey. London-New York: Routledge, 2009. Indo-Iranian Journal 54: 271-300.
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2010
2010 b Review of Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, Claudia Brown, eds., Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism 52. London: Routledge, 2009. Indo-Iranian Journal 53: 285-296.
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2010 a Review of Anton Schiefner, Übersetzungen aus dem tibetischen Kanjur: Beiträge zur Buddhismus¬kunde und zur zentralasiatischen Märchenforschung. Hrsg. von Hartmut Walravens. Sinologica Coloniensia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Indo-Iranian Journal 53/1: 65-70.
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2009
2009 b Review of Stephen C. Berkwitz, South Asian Buddhism: A Survey. London: Routledge, 2009. Indo-Iranian Journal 54: 275-285
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2009 a Review of Catherine Ludvik, Sarasvatī: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge: from the manuscript-carrying Vīnā-player to the weapon-wielding defender of the Dharma. Brill's Indological Library 27. Leiden/Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2007, and Recontextualizing the Praises of a Goddess: From the Harivamśa to Yijing's Chinese Translation of the Sutra of Golden Light. Italian School of East Asian Studies Occasional Papers 10. Kyoto: Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale, 2006. Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 63/4: 991-996.
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2008
2008 Review of Yasuhiro Sueki, Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies: from the Viewpoint of Buddhist Philology. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, 2008. Indo-Iranian Journal 51: 195-203.
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2006
2006 b Review of Three Mountains and Seven Rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa's Felicitation Volume. Eds. Shoun Hino and Toshiro Wada. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2004. Journal of the American Oriental Society 125/2: 341.
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2006 a Review of The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism: PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 2/10. Eds. Helmut Eimer, David Germano. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Journal of the American Oriental Society 125/2: 341-342.
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1999
1999 Review of Minoru Hara and J. C. Wright, eds., John Brough: Collected Papers. Indo-Iranian Journal 42/2: 188-196.
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1998
1998 Review of Ulrich Pagel and Séan Gaffney, Location list to the texts in the micro¬fiche edition of the Íel dkar (London) Manuscript bKa' 'gyur (Or. 6724). In Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61/2 (1998): 388-390.
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1990
1990 Translated (from Japanese), with additional notes and references: Gen'ichi Yamazaki, "The Legend of the Foundation of Khotan." Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 48: 55-80.
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Jonathan Silk | Encyclopaedia Articles
2010
2010 "Bouddhisme. " In Oliver Pétré-Grenouilleau, ed., Dictionnaire des esclavages (Paris: Larousse): 123-125.
2007
2007 "Bodhisattva" and "Mahāyāna Buddhism." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Published online.
Stable URLs:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/70982/bodhisattva
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/358037/Mahayana
2004
2004 "Buddhist Studies" and "Slavery." In Robert Buswell, Jr., ed., The Encyclopedia of Buddhism (New York: Thomson/Gale): Vol. 1: 94-101, vol. 2: 780-781, respectively.
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Jonathan Silk | Other
2010
2010 c "Imag(in)ing the Buddhist Brain: Editorial Introduction." With Lorenza S. Colzato. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45/3: 591-595. [Largely written by Silk.]
2010 b "Tsuitō: Erikku Churuhyā Kyōju (11928.9.13–2008.2.7)." 追悼 エリッキ・チュルヒヤー教授 (一九二八年九月十三日〜二〇〇八年二月七日). Trans. Rolf Giebel. Tōhōgaku 東方學 120: 153-162.
2010 a "In memoriam, Erik Zürcher (13 Sept. 1928 – 7 Feb. 2008)." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30/1-2 [2008 date, published 2010]: 3-22.
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2008
2008 b "Seshinsaku Yuishiki Nijūron ni miru Kyōsei to Yugagyō Yuishikiha" 世親作 『唯識二十論』 にみる共生と瑜伽行唯識派. Kyōsei Shisō Kenkyū Nempō 共生思想研究年報 2008: 30-34. A Japanese translation of 2008 a.
2008 a "Kyōsei and Yogācāra Buddhism: A look at Vasubandhu's Vimśikā." Kyōsei Shisō Kenkyū Nempō 共生思想研究年報 2008: 35-39.
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2006
2006 "Eulogy: Prof. Gadjin Masato Nagao (22 August 1907 - 13 March 2005)." Mahāpitaka (Newsletter of the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai). New Series No. 11: 9-10.
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2004
2004 Obituary, "Gadjin Masato Nagao (1907-2005)." The Eastern Buddhist 36/1-2: 243-251 (actually published Dec. 2005).
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