AG Haudricourt

Bibliogr., Index

Maps and Illustrations page (p.XI) -- Contributors (p.XIII) -- Preface (p.XVII) -- Abbreviations (p.XXI) -- Introducing Buddhism and Law / Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan (p.I) -- Part I. The roots of Buddhism and Law in India -- Society at the Time of the Buddha / Kumkum Roy (p.31) -- What the Vinayas Can Tell Us about Law / Petra Kieffer-Pülz (p.46) -- Keeping the Buddha’s Rules: The View from the Sutra Pitaka / Rupert Gethin (p.63) -- Proper Possessions: Buddhist Attitudes toward Material Property / Jacob N. Kinnard (p.78) -- On the Legal and Economic Activities of Buddhist Nuns: Two Examples from Early India / Gregory Schopen (p.91) -- Part II. Buddhism and Law in South and Southeast Asia -- Buddhism and Law in Sri Lanka / Sunil Goonasekera (p.117) -- Flanked by Images of Our Buddha: Community, Law, and Religion in a Premodern Buddhist Context / Jonathan S. Walters (p.135) -- The Legal Regulation of Buddhism in Contemporary Sri Lanka / Benjamin Schonthal (p.150) -- Pali Buddhist Law in Southeast Asia / Andrew Huxley (p.167) -- Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic Inheritance in Seventeenth Century Burma / Christian Lammerts (p.183) -- Part III. Buddhism and Law in East Asia -- Buddhism and Law in China: The Emergence of Distinctive Patterns in Chinese History / T.H. Barrett (p.201) -- The Ownership and Theft of Monastic Land in Ming China / Timothy Brook (p.217) -- Buddhism and Law in China: Qing Dynasty to the Present / Anthony Dicks (p.234) -- Buddhism and Law in Korean History: From Parallel Transmission to Institutional Divergence / Mark A. Nathan (p.255) -- Buddhism and Law in Japan / Brian Ruppert (p.273) -- Relic Theft in Medieval Japan / Bernard Faure (p.288) -- Part IV. Buddhism and Law in North Asia and the Himalayan Region -- Buddhism and Law in Tibet / Rebecca Redwood French (p.305) -- Buddhist Laws in Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallace (p.319) -- Karma, Monastic Law, and Gender Justice / Karma Lekshe Tsomo (p.334) -- Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan / Richard W. Whitecross (p.350) -- A Selection of Readings (p.369) -- Index (p.373)