Publications – Jonathan Silk

Books and Monographs

i) Authored

• 2016. Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (I): Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations. Harvard Oriental Series 81. Cambridge MA: Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. PDF
• 2015. Buddhist Cosmic Unity: An Edition, Translation and Study of the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 4. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press. PDF
• 2008b. Managing Monks: Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism. New York: Oxford University Press.

  Published in Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011: DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326840.001.0001.
  Reviewed by Petra Kieffer-Pülz, Indo-Iranian Journal 53, no. 1 (2010): 71–88.

• 2008a. Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

  Long listed for the International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize 2011 (Humanities).
  Reissued by Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 2009.
  Reviewed by Douglas Osto, H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews. October, 2009 URL; Amy Paris Langenberg, Religious Studies Review 35, no. 4 (Dec. 2009): 311–312; Gulio Agostini, Journal of Asian Studies 70 (2011): 297–299; Pascale Hugon, Numen 57, no. 5 (2010): 625–631; Herman Tull, History of Religions 51, no. 2 (November 2011): 181–183; Kumkum Roy, The Book Review 34, no. 1 (Jan 2010).

• 2006. Body Language: Indic Śarīra and Chinese shèlì in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra and Saddharmapuṇḍarīka. Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series XIX. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies. PDF

  Reviewed by Karel Werner, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (2009): 264–267; George A. Keyworth, Religious Studies Review 35, no. 1 (2009): 80.

• 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. PDF

  Reviewed by Ulrich Pagel, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59, no. 2 (1996): 388–389; J. W. de Jong, Indo-Iranian Journal 40, no. 3 (1997): 275–278; Shinjō Kawasaki 川崎信定, Tōyō Gakuhō 東洋学報 82, no. 3 (2000): 1–6 (456–451); Mark Tatz, Journal of the American Oriental Society 123, no. 1 (2003): 264–265.

ii) Edited

• 2021. Zacchetti, Stefano. The Da zhidu lun 大智度論 (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa) and the History of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā: Patterns of Textual Variation in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature. Edited for publication by Michael Radich and Jonathan Silk. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 14. Hamburg: projekt verlag.
• 2020. "At the Shores of the Sky": Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt. Edited with Paul W. Kroll. Sinica Leidensia 151. Leiden: Brill. Open Access: https://brill.com/view/title/57671. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438200.
• 2019. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/2. Leiden: Brill.
• 2015. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume I: Literature and Languages. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/1. Leiden: Brill.

  Reviewed by D. Boucher, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80, no. 3 (2017): 639–642; E. van Laerhoven, Acta Comparanda 30 (2019): 79–83.

• 2013. Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher. Sinica Leidensia 112. Leiden: Brill.

  Reviewed by James Benn, Journal of the American Oriental Society 136, no. 1 (2016): 154–156.

• 2000. Wisdom, Compassion, and the Search for Understanding: The Buddhist Studies Legacy of Gadjin M. Nagao. Studies in the Buddhist Traditions 3. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. PDF

  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, no. 1 (2001): 181–185.

• 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 Institute for the Study of Buddhist Literature and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan. PDF

  Reviewed by Alex Wayman, Journal of the American Oriental Society 110, no. 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, no. 2 (1991): 384–385; Hajime Sakurabe, Eastern Buddhist (1993) 26, no. 1: 135–138; Philosophy East and West 43, no. 1 (1993): 158; F. Tola and C. Dragonetti, Revista de Estudios Budistas 6 (1994): 163–164.

Articles

• 2024. "Remarks on a Recent Study of the Śrīmālādevīsiṁhanādanirdeśasūtra." Indo-Iranian Journal 67.1: 53–80.
• 2022d. "The History of the *Kāśyapaparivarta in Chinese Translations and Its Connection with the Mahāratnakūṭa (Da Baoji jing 大寶積經) Collection." Journal of the American Oriental Society 142, no. 3: 671–697. https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.142.3.2022.ar028. PDF
• 2022c. "Thinking About the Study of Buddhist Texts: Ideas from Jerusalem, in More Ways Than One." Journal of Indian Philosophy. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10781-022-09515-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-022-09515-3. PDF
• 2022b. "Serious Play: Recent Scholarship on the Lalitavistara." Indo-Iranian Journal 65, no. 3: 267–301. doi:10.1163/15728536-06503004. PDF
• 2022a. "A Dunhuang Tibetan Poem Praising Amitābha and Its Rebirth Among the Gter ma." From Khyung lung to Lhasa, A Festschrift for Dan Martin / Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 64: 516–613. PDF

  Co-authored with Leonard van der Kuijp.

• 2021c. "The Heart Sūtra as Dhāraṇī." Acta Asiatica 121: 99-125. PDF
• 2021b. "A Brief Introduction to Recent Chinese Studies on Sanskrit and Khotanese (Chiefly Buddhist) Literature." Indo-Iranian Journal 64: 51-64. PDF
• 2021a. "Editing without an Ur-text: Buddhist Sūtras, Rabbinic Text Criticism, and the Open Philology Digital Humanities Project." 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 24: 147-163. PDF
• 2020f. "Origins of the Māhāyāna." Indo-Iranian Journal 63, no. 4: 371-394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163?15728536-06302005. PDF

  Review article on Paul Harrison, Setting Out onthe GreatWay: Essays on Early Mahāyāna Buddhism. (Sheffield: Equinox, 2018)

• 2020e. “A Resurgent Interest in ‘Hindu Fiction’: On and around the Kathāsaritsāgara, with Special Attention to Buddhism.” Indo-Iranian Journal 63: 263–306. DOI:10.1163/15728536-06303002. PDF
• 2020d. “A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings.” In At the Shores of the Sky, edited by Paul W. Kroll and Jonathan A. Silk, 23-37. Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt. Sinica Leidensia 151. Leiden: Brill. DOI:10.1163/9789004438200_005.
• 2020c. “Indian Buddhist Attitudes toward Outcastes: Rhetoric around caṇḍālas.” Indo-Iranian Journal 63: 128–187. PDF
• 2020b. “Tekisuto sokei no nai kōtei: Bukkyō kyōten to yudayakyō rabi bunken kenkyū ni okeru honbun hihan, soshite ‘Hirakareta bunkengaku’ dejitaru hyūmanitīzu purojekuto” テキスト祖型のない校訂: 佛敎經典とユダヤ敎ラビ文獻硏究における本文批評、 そして「開かれた文獻學」デジタルヒューマニティーズ プロジェクト [Editing without an Ur-text: Buddhist Sūtras, Rabbinic Text Criticism, and the Open Philology Digital Humanities Project]. Translated by Notake Miyako 野武美彌子. Tōyō no Shisō to Shūkyō 東洋の思想と宗敎 37: 22–58. PDF

  The original version of the text was presented during guest lectures in Tokyo and Kyoto. PDF

• 2020a. “A Dunhuang Tibetan Aspirational prayer for Rebirth in Amitābha’s Pure Land.” 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 23: 65-87. PDF
• 2019e. “Trans-Sectual Identity: Materials for the Study of the Praśnottararatnamālikā, a Hindu/Jaina/Buddhist Catechism (I).” Indo-Iranian Journal 62, no. 2: 101–159. PDF

  Co-authored with Péter-Dániel Szántó.

• 2019d. “Maitreya.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives, edited by Jonathan A. Silk et al., 302-324. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/2. Leiden: Brill. PDF

  Co-authored with Richard Bowering, Richard McBride II, and Miyaji Akira.

• 2019c. “Mahādeva.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives, edited by Jonathan A. Silk et al., 298-301. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/2. Leiden: Brill. PDF
• 2019b. “Chinese Sūtras in Tibetan Translation: A Preliminary Survey.” 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 22: 227–246. PDF
• 2019a. “In Praise of His Mighty Name: A Tibetan Poem on Amitābha from Dunhuang.” In Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts, edited by Georgios T. Halkias and Richard K. Payne, 496-539. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. PDF
• 2018. “A Present Future Foretold: The Ten Dreams of King Kṛkin in Pelliot tibétain 977.” In Saddharmāmr̥tam: Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Harmann zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by Oliver van Criegern, Gudrun Melzer, and Johannes Schneider, 427-439. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 93. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. PDF
• 2017c. “An Early Manuscript Fragment of Dharmarakṣa’s Translation of the *Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana.” In Reading Slowly: A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig, edited by Lutz Edzard, Jens W. Borgland and Ute Hüsken, 409-431. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. PDF

  Co-authored with Imre Galambos.

• 2017b. “The Ten Virtues of Loudly Invoking the Name of Amitābha: Stein Tibetan 724 and an Aspect of Chinese Nianfo Practice in Tibetan Dunhuang.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, no. 3: 473–482. PDF
• 2017a. “Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (II): An edition of the Dunhuang Manuscript Pelliot tibétain 797.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 39: 342–360. PDF
• 2016c. “Two Mahādeva Fragments.” In Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Buddhist Manuscripts IV, edited by Jens Braarvig, 351-358. Oslo: Hermes. [published 2017]. PDF
• 2016b. “Peering Through a Funhouse Mirror: Trying to Read Indic Texts Through Tibetan and Chinese Translations.” In Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation, edited by Dorji Wangchuk, 287-311. Indian and Tibetan Studies 5. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg. PDF
• 2016a. “A Tibetan Grammatical Construction: verb + na go.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 35: 309–334. PDF
• 2015b. “Canonicity.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume I: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan A. Silk et al., 5-37. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/1. Leiden: Brill. PDF
• 2015a. “Establishing / Interpreting / Translating: Is It Just That Easy?” The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 36/37 (2013-2014): 205–225. PDF
• 2014c. “Out of the East: Tibetan Scripture Translations from Chinese.” Bod rig pa’i dus deb / Zangxue xuekan 藏學學刊 / Journal of Tibetology 9: 29–36. PDF
• 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. PDF
• 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. PDF
• 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. PDF
• 2013b. “The Proof is in the Pudding: What is Involved in Editing and Translating a Mahāyāna Sūtra?” Indo Iranian Journal 56: 157–178. PDF

  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).

• 2013a. “Buddhist Sūtras in Sanskrit from the Potala.” Indo Iranian Journal 56: 61–87. PDF

  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 7] (Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House / Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010).

• 2012b. “A Missed Opportunity.” History of Religions 51, no. 3: 262–272. PDF

  Review article on K. Buffetrille and D. S. Lopez, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, by E. Burnouf (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

• 2012a. “Kern and the Study of Indian Buddhism: With a Speculative Note on the Ceylonese Dhammarucikas.” Journal of the Pali Text Society 31: 125–154. PDF
• 2011. “The Significance of Buddhist Scriptures.” In Chūgoku Indo Shūkyōshi toku ni Bukkyōshi ni okeru Shomotsu no Ryūtsū Denpa to Jinbutsu Idō no Chiiki Tokusei 中国印度宗教史とくに仏教史における書物の流通伝播と人物移動の地域特性 / Regional Characteristics of Text Dissemination and Relocation of People in the History of Chinese and Indian Religions, with Special Reference to Buddhism, edited by Funayama Toru, 243-255. Heisei 19-nendo–Heisei 22-nendo kagaku kenkyūhi hojokin (kiban kenkyū [B]) kenkyū seika hōkokusho 平成19年度~平成22年度科学研究費補助金（基盤研究（B））研究成果報告書. Kadai bangō 課題番号 19320010. Kyoto: Kyoto University Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo 京都大學人文科學研究所.
• 2010b. “Test Sailing the Ship of the Teachings: Hesitant Notes on Kāśyapaparivarta §153–154.” In From Turfan to Ajanta: Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eighteeth Birthday, edited by Eli Franco and Monika Zin, 897-924. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute. PDF
• 2010a. “The Jifayue sheku tuoluoni jing—Translation, Non-translation, Both or Neither?” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30, no. 1-2 [dated 2008, published 2010]: 369–420. PDF
• 2009b. “A Small Problem of Tense and Person: Dhammapada 306 and Its Parallels.” Journal of the Pali Text Society 30: 161–176. PDF
• 2009a. “Remarks on the Kāśyapaparivarta Commentary.” In Pāsādikadānaṃ: Festschrift für Bhikkhu Pāsādika, edited by Martin Straube, Roland Steiner, Jayandra Soni, Michael Hahn and Mitsuyo Demoto, 381-397. Indica et Tibetica 52. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag. PDF
• 2008g. “The Story of Dharmaruci: In the Divyāvadāna and Kṣemendra’s Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā.” Indo Iranian Journal 51: 137–185. PDF
• 2008f. “Lies, Slander and the Study of Buddhism.” Inaugural lecture delivered 1 April 2008, at Leiden University (Leiden: Universiteit Leiden). PDF
• 2008e. “Putative Persian Perversities: Buddhist Condemnations of Zoroastrian Close-Kin Marriage in Context.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71, no. 3: 433–464. PDF
• 2008d. “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. PDF
• 2008c. “Forbidden Women: A Peculiar Buddhist Reference.” In Aspects of Research into Central Asian Buddhism. In memorium Kōgi Kudara, edited by Peter Zieme, 371-378. Silk Road Studies 16. Turnhout: Brepols. PDF
• 2008b. “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, no. 4: 253–281. PDF
• 2008a. “*Parikarṣati 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 Soka University 11: 61–69. PDF
• 2007d. “Child Abandonment and Homes for Unwed Mothers in Ancient India: Buddhist Sources.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 127, no. 3: 297–314. PDF
• 2007c. “Garlanding as Sexual Invitation: Indian Buddhist Evidence.” Indo-Iranian Journal 50: 5–10. PDF
• 2007b. “Good and Evil in Indian Buddhism: The Five Sins of Immediate Retribution.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 35, no. 3: 253–286. PDF

  Chinese translation: Shangguan Jiaqi 上官嘉琪, "Yindu fojiaozhong de shan yu e: xianbao zhi wu nizhongzui" 印度佛教中的善与恶: 现报之五逆重罪. Fojiao yanjiu 佛学研究 2 (2020): 218-245.

• 2007a. “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 Soka University 10: 171–179. PDF
• 2006. “Xuanzang’s Portrayal of the Buddhist Mahādeva.” In Hokekyō to Daijō Kyōten no Kenkyū 法華経と大乗経典の研究, edited by Mochizuki Kaishuku 望月海淑, 193-213 (622-602). Tokyo: Sankibō busshorin 山喜房佛書林. PDF
• 2004b. “Wisdom and Compassion” and “A Sūtra for Long Life.” In Buddhist Scriptures, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., 350-360; 423-429. London: Penguin Books.

  Translations from the Kāśyapaparivarta (excerpts) and Aparimitāyurjñāna (complete).

• 2004a. “Dressed for Success: The Monk Kāśyapa and Strategies of Legitimation in Earlier Mahāyāna Buddhist Scriptures.” Journal Asiatique 291, no. 1–2 [dated 2003; actually published Oct. 2004]: 173–219. PDF
• 2003. “The Fruits of Paradox: On the Religious Architecture of the Buddha’s Life Story.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71, no. 4: 863–881. PDF
• 2002d. “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?]. In 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, edited by Sakurabe Hajime Hakase Kiju Kinen Ronshū kankōkai 櫻部建博士喜寿記念論集刊行会, 155-170. Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten 平楽寺書店. PDF

  An abbreviated Japanese translation (by Satoshi Hiraoka 平岡聡) of B: 2004a.

• 2002c. “Possible Indian Sources for the Term Tshad ma’i skyes bu as Pramāṇapuruṣa.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 30, no. 2: 111–160. PDF
• 2002b. “Cui bono? or Follow the Money: Identifying the Sophist in a Pāli Commentary.” In Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodō Mori, edited by Publication Committee for Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodō Mori, 129-183. Hamamatsu: Kokusai Bukkyoto Kyokai. PDF
• 2002a. “What, If Anything, is Mahāyāna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and Classifications.” Numen 49, no. 4: 355–405. PDF

  Reprinted in Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. Volume 3 The Origins and Nature of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Some Mahāyāna Religious Topics, edited by Paul Williams, 368-404. London: Routledge, 2005.

• 2001b. “The Place of the Lotus Sūtra in Indian Buddhism.” Journal of Oriental Philosophy 11: 89–107. PDF
• 2001a. “Contributions to the Study of the Philosophical Vocabulary of Mahāyāna Buddhism.” The Eastern Buddhist 33, no. 1: 144–168. PDF
• 2000c. “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, no. 2: 220–198 (1–23).

  Joint translation by the author and Nobuyuki Yamagiwa 山極伸之 of B: 2001b.

• 2000b. “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 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』, edited by Yamada Meiji 山田明爾, 131-155. Kyoto: Nagata Bunshōdō 永田文昌堂.

  A Japanese translation (by Satoshi Hiraoka 平岡聡) of a portion of B: 1997a.

• 2000a. “The Yogācāra Bhikṣu.” In Wisdom, Compassion, and the Search for Understanding: The Buddhist Studies Legacy of Gadjin M. Nagao, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, 265-314. Studies in the Buddhist Traditions 3. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. PDF
• 1999b. 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, no. 1: 211–249. PDF

  This article was originally written in 1934, printed, but never published. I edited the article, and added an introduction and copious notes correcting, bringing up to date and clarifying the original article.

• 1999a. “Marginal Notes on a Study of Buddhism, Economy and Society in China.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 22, no. 2: 359–396. PDF

  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.

• 1997b. “Further remarks on the yogācāra bhikṣu.” In Dharmadūta: Mélanges offerts au Vénérable Thích Huyên-Vi à l’occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire, edited by Bhikkhu Pāsādika and Bhikkhu Tampalawela Dhammaratana, 233-250. Paris: Éditions You Feng. PDF
• 1997a. “The Composition of the Guan Wuliangshoufo-jing: Some Buddhist and Jaina Parallels to its Narrative Frame.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 25, no. 2: 181–256. PDF

  Chinese translation: “Guan Wuliangshoufo jing de goucheng: Ji xushi jiegou de ruogan Fojiao yu qinajiao pingxingben” 《觀無量壽佛經》的構成: 其敘事結構的若干佛教與耆那教平行本. Xinjiapo Fojiao yanjiu xuekan 新加坡佛教研究学刊 / Singaporean Journal of Buddhist Studies 3 (2016): 111–199. PDF

• 1996. “Notes on the History of the Yongle Kanjur.” In Suhr̥llekha: Festgabe für Helmut Eimer, edited by Michael Hahn, JensUwe Hartmann and Roland Steiner, 153-200. Indica et Tibetica 28. Swisttal-Odendorf, Germany: Indica et Tibetica Verlag. PDF
• 1994. “The Victorian Creation of Buddhism.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 22: 171–196. PDF

  Review of The British discovery of Buddhism, by Philip C. Almond (Cambridge, 1988).

• 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. PDF
• 1992. “A Bibliography on Ancient Indian Slavery.” Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16/17: 277–285. PDF
• 1989. “A Note on the Opening Formula of Buddhist Sūtras.” The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 12, no. 1: 158–163. PDF

Reviews and Translations

• 2022. Review of Saṁsāracakra: The Wheel of Rebirth in the Indian Tradition, by Monika Zin and Dieter Schlingloff. (New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors.) Indo-Iranian Journal 65: 171–180. PDF
• 2021. Review of The Saṃghāṭasūtra: A Popular Devotional Buddhist Sanskrit Text: editio maior, by Oskar von Hinüber. Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 2020, Vol. xxiv, Supplement. Indo-Iranian Journal 64: 392–402. PDF
• 2020c. Review of Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality: New Approaches, edited by Brigit Kellner. Religion and Society 64 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019). Indo-Iranian Journal 63: 94–101. PDF
• 2020b. Review of A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture: Vajra­tuṇḍa­sama­ya­kalparāja—Critical Edition and Translation, by Gergely Hidas. Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State 3 (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH., 2019). Indo-Iranian Journal 63: 78–93. PDF
• 2020a. Review of Oskar von Hinüber. Kleine Schriften III, edited by Harry Falk, Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber and Walter Slaje. Veröffentlichungen der Helmuth von Glasenapp-Stiftung 49 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019). Indo-Iranian Journal 63: 76–77. PDF
• 2019b. Review of To Edit or Not to Edit: On Textual Criticism of Sanskrit Works. A series of lectures delivered at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris, March 2015, and the Department of Pali, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, October and November 2015, by Jürgen Hanneder. Pune Indological Series I (Pune: Aditya Prakashan, 2017). Indo-Iranian Journal 62, no. 3: 280–291. PDF
• 2019a. Review of The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translations, by Richard Salomon. (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2018). Indo-Iranian Journal 62, no. 3: 269–279. PDF
• 2015. Review of Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism, by Johannes Bronkhorst. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2, South Asia 24 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Indo-Iranian Journal 58: 163–169. PDF
• 2013. Review of The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal, by Anālayo. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 1 (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, 2010). Indo-Iranian Journal 56: 193–199. PDF
• 2012b. Review of Oskar von Hinüber: Kleine Schriften, edited by Harry Falk and Walter Slaje. 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. PDF
• 2012a. Review of A Survey of the Sanskrit fragments Corresponding to the Chinese Saṁyuktāgama [Zōagonkyō sōtō bonbun danpen ichiran] (雜阿含經相當梵文斷片一覽), by Jin-il Chung. (Tōkyō: Sankibō Busshorin 山喜房佛書林, 2008). Indo-Iranian Journal 55: 92–96. PDF
• 2011. Review of South Asian Buddhism: A Survey, by Stephen C. Berkwitz. (London: Routledge, 2009). Indo-Iranian Journal 54: 275–285. PDF
• 2010b. Review of Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art, edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober and Claudi Brown. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism 52 (London: Routledge, 2009). Indo-Iranian Journal 53: 285–296. PDF
• 2010a. Review of Übersetzungen aus dem tibetischen Kanjur: Beiträge zur Buddhismuskunde und zur zentralasiatischen Märchenforschung, by Anton Schiefner. Hrsg. von Hartmut Walravens. Sinologica Coloniensia 25 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007). Indo-Iranian Journal 53, no. 1: 65–70. PDF
• 2009. Review of Sarasvatī: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge: from the manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the weapon-wielding defender of the Dharma, by Catherine Ludvik. Brill’s Indological Library 27 (Leiden/Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2007), and Recontextualizing the Praises of a Goddess: From the Harivaṁśa to Yijing’s Chinese Translation of the Sutra of Golden Light, by Catherine Ludvik. Italian School of East Asian Studies Occasional Papers 10 (Kyoto: Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale, 2006). Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 63, no. 4: 991–996. PDF
• 2008. Review of Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies: from the Viewpoint of Buddhist Philology, by Yasuhiro Sueki. 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. PDF
• 2006b. 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., edited by Helmut Eimer and David Germano. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library 2/10 (Leiden: Brill, 2002). Journal of the American Oriental Society 125, no. 2: 341–342.
• 2006a. Review of Three Mountains and Seven Rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa’s Felicitation Volume, edited by Shoun Hino and Toshiro Wada. (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2004). Journal of the American Oriental Society 125, no. 2: 341. PDF
• 1999. Review of John Brough: Collected Papers, edited by Minoru Hara and J. C. Wright. Indo-Iranian Journal 42, no. 2: 188–196. PDF
• 1998. Review of Location list to the texts in the microfiche edition of the Íel dkar (London) Manuscript bKa’ ’gyur (Or. 6724), by Ulrich Pagel and Séan Gaffney. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61, no. 2 (1998): 388–390. PDF
• 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.

Shorter Encyclopaedia Articles

• 2010. “Bouddhisme.” In Dictionnaire des esclavages, edited by Oliver Pétré-Grenouilleau, 123-125. Paris: Larousse.
• 2007. “Bodhisattva” and “Mahāyāna Buddhism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Published online. Stable URLs: Bodhisattva Mahāyāna Buddhism
• 2004. “Buddhist Studies” and “Slavery.” In The Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert Buswell, Jr., vol. 1: 94-101, vol. 2: 780-781. New York: Thomson/Gale. PDF1 PDF2

Other

• 2017. “Foreword” in Anālayo, Vinaya Studies. Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Research Series 7. Taipei, Taiwan: Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation (2017): xi–xiv.
• 2015. General Introduction in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume I: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan A Silk et al., xxxiv-xlv. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, South Asia, 29/1. Leiden: Brill.
• 2014. “The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia.” IIAS Newsletter 68 (Summer 2014): 41.
• 2013b. Editorial in Indo-Iranian Journal 56, no. 1: 1–2.

  Co-authored with Peter Bisschop.

• 2013a. “Introduction.” In Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, 1-25. Sinica Leidensia 112. Leiden: Brill.
• 2010c. “Imag(in)ing the Buddhist Brain: Editorial Introduction.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45, no. 3: 591–595. [Largely written by Silk.]

  Co-authored with Lorenza S. Colzato.

• 2010b. “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.
• 2010a. “In memoriam, Erik Zürcher (13 Sept. 1928 – 7 Feb. 2008).” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30, no. 1-2 [2008 date, published 2010]: 3–22. PDF
• 2009. Editorial in Indo-Iranian Journal 52, no. 2-3: 97–100.

  Co-authored with Hans Bakker.

• 2008b. “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. PDF

  A Japanese translation of 2008a.

• 2008a. “Kyōsei and Yogācāra Buddhism: A look at Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā.” Kyōsei Shisō Kenkyū Nempō 共生思想研究年報 (2008): 35–39.
• 2006. “Eulogy: Prof. Gadjin Masato Nagao (22 August 1907 – 13 March 2005).” Mahāpiṭaka (Newsletter of the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai). New Series No. 11: 9–10. PDF
• 2004. Obituary, “Gadjin Masato Nagao (1907–2005).” The Eastern Buddhist 36, no. 1-2: 243–251 (actually published Dec. 2005). PDF