• Jonathan Alan Silk (born 1960) is an American academic specialising in Buddhism. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Buddhist Studies at Leiden University...
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    The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi),...
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  • life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service...
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    Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders. Spiders use silk to make webs or other structures that function as adhesive traps to catch prey...
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  • survive. An English translation and analysis of the AAN was published by Jonathan Silk in 2015. The first part of the AAN outlines various wrong views (mithyā-dr̥ṣṭi)...
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    Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Volume: 29-1. Editor-in-Chief: Jonathan Silk. "The Stem Array | 84000 Reading Room". 84000 Translating The Words...
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  • Skype SILK – Super Wideband Audio Codec, Retrieved 2009-09-01 "SILK Patent License". Skype. December 6, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2023. Jonathan Christensen...
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    大乘法界無差別論) which is also said to have been authored by the same figure. Jonathan Silk also argues that both texts were by the same author. Peter Harvey also...
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  • An Evening with Silk Sonic is the debut studio album by American musical superduo Silk Sonic, composed of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. It was released...
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  • politically correct and much more usual" term used by Mahāyānists. Jonathan Silk has argued that the term "Hinayana" was used to refer to whomever one...
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    Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King (born 21 May 1948), known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian actor. Hyde is perhaps best known for...
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  • Kōjukai Honbu. Gummer, Nathalie (2015). "Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra," In Jonathan Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, Vincent Eltschinger (eds.): Brill's Encyclopedia...
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    known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese...
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  • Silk Electric is the thirteenth studio album by American R&B singer Diana Ross, released on September 10, 1982, by RCA Records. It was Ross' second of...
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  • Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk; 19 May 1942) is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer...
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    discussed and debated its doctrine of the One Vehicle. According to Jonathan Silk, the influence of the Lotus Sūtra in India may have been limited, but...
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  • Currently its editor-in-chiefs are Peter Bisschop (Leiden University) and Jonathan Silk (Leiden University). Hara, Minoru (2000). "Obituary". Indo-Iranian Journal...
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    the Mahāsaṃghika tradition about Jīvaka are fragmented. Buddhologist Jonathan Silk makes note of a passage in the commentary to the Dhammapada, which states...
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  • that the Magas are always held to be in the West of India proper, Jonathan Silk doubts that the Magas might not have followed such practices and they...
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    Devadatta Radich, Michael (2015). "Tathāgatagarbha Scriptures." In Jonathan Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, Vincent Eltschinger (eds.): Brill's Encyclopedia...
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    Buddhist traditions, but suggests that as an avenue for further research. Jonathan Silk emphasizes the miraculous and god-like behaviors and words of the Buddha...
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    position of these two figures. On a similar note, Buddhist studies scholar Jonathan Silk remarks that the earliest Chinese translations hardly mention Mahākāśyapa...
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  • Conze's notations in regard to the Gilgit text are wrong or misleading." Jonathan Silk has described his edition of the Heart Sutra as "chaotic". His Heart...
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    translation of Le lotus de la bonne loi (The Lotus Sutra, 1852). According to Jonathan Silk, Burnouf can be regarded as "the founding father of modern Buddhist...
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    Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume One: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, and Vincent Eltschinger, 261–273. Leiden: Brill...
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    (2002), pp. 51-93 (43 pages). Eastern Buddhist Society. Gomez, Luis O; Silk, Jonathan A. (1989) Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahayana...
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    "Dignaga" in 2019, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. II, “Lives,” ed. Jonathan Silk (in chief), Richard Bowring, Vincent Eltschinger and Michael Radich...
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    in Buddhism Radich, Michael (2015). "Tathāgatagarbha Scriptures." In Jonathan Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, Vincent Eltschinger (eds.): Brill's Encyclopedia...
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    Nephila (redirect from Golden silk spider)
    genus have been moved to Trichonephila. They are commonly called golden silk orb-weavers, golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders, or banana spiders. The...
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  • After Last Night (category Silk Sonic songs)
    Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). "After Last Night" was written by Mars, Brandon Anderson, Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Stephen Bruner, Jonathan Yip, Ray...
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