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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2014
      28 July 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139044134
      9780521515795
      9780521734196
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139044134
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 407 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 407 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Asian Studies, Religion
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    As the first comprehensive study of Buddhism and law in Asia, this interdisciplinary volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law. Buddhism and Law draws on the expertise of the foremost scholars in Buddhist studies and in law to trace the legal aspects of the religion from the time of the Buddha to the present. In some cases, Buddhism provided the crucial architecture for legal ideologies and secular law codes, while in other cases it had to contend with a pre-existing legal system, to which it added a new layer of complexity. The wide-ranging studies in this book reveal a diversity of relationships between Buddhist monastic codes and secular legal systems in terms of substantive rules, factoring, and ritual practices. This volume will be an essential resource for all students and teachers in Buddhist studies, law and religion, and comparative law.

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