[PDF] Buddhism And Law eBook

Author : Rebecca Redwood French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521515793

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This volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law.

Author : Rebecca Redwood French
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501735349

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The Golden Yoke is a remarkable achievement. It is the first elaboration of the legal, cultural, and ideological dimensions of precommunist Tibetan jurisprudence, a unique legal system that maintains its secularism within a thoroughly Buddhist setting. Layer by layer, Rebecca Redwood French reconstructs the daily operation of law in Tibet before the Chinese invasion in 1959. In the Tibetans' own words, French identifies their courts, symbols, and personnel and traces the procedures for petitioning and filing documents. There are stories here from judges, legal conciliators, and lay people about murder, property disputes, and divorce. French shows that Tibetan law is deeply embedded in its Buddhist culture and that the system evolved not from the rules and judgments but from what people actually do and say. In what amounts to a fully developed cosmology, she describes the cultural foundation that informs the system: myths, notions of time and conflux, inner morality, language patterns, rituals, use of space, symbols, and concepts. Based on extensive readings of Tibetan legal documents and codes, interviews with Tibetan scholars, and the reminiscences of Tibetans at home and in exile, this generously illustrated, elegantly written work is a model of outstanding research. French combines the talents of a legal anthropologist with those of a former law practitioner to develop a new field of study that has implications for other judicial systems, including our own.

Author : Benjamin Schonthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107152232

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Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.

Author : Edward Conze
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120801981

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In the Buddhist religion, the Dharma concept of the Buddha is not confined to men, but is taught to all kinds of beings, including ghosts and animals. According to a legend Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of mercy, had taken among the birds the form of a cuckoo- an animal which recommends itself to the Buddhist mind by its attitude to family life. The present book constitutes an English translation of the Tibetan original. In his introduction, Dr. Conze not only sketches the background of the story, but gives extracts from another tibetan Work, originating from the Kagyudpa school of Milarepa, which describes the spiritual antecedents of the cuckoo. The book in spite of its deep content makes a plesent and easy reading. As a work of popular interest, it should be welcomed by scholars as well as by general readers interest in Buddhist literature.