BUDDHISM AND LAW

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BUDDHISM AND L AW

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.

r e b e c c a r e d w o o d f r e n c h is the Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at the SUNY Buffalo Law School and a former director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy (2008?2010). She is the author of The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet (1995). Her recent work focuses on the intersection of Buddhism and law in relation to feminism, natural law, and comparative law.

m a r k a . n a t h a n is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY Buffalo). A specialist on Buddhism in Korea, his research focuses on Buddhist responses to the changing religious, social, political, and legal environments since the late nineteenth century. He is currently at work on a book project entitled From the Mountains to the City: Buddhist Propagation and Religious Reform in Modern Korean History.

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BU D D HI S M A ND L AW

An Introduction

edited by REBECCA REDWOOD FRENCH

MARK A. NATHAN

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Buffalo Law School; Mark A. Nathan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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1. Buddhists ? Legal status, laws, etc. ? Asia. 2. Buddhism and law ? Asia. I. French, Rebecca

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Contents

Maps and Illustrations Contributors Preface Abbreviations

Introducing Buddhism and Law Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan

page xi xiii xvii xxi

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part i the roots of buddhism and law in india

1. Society at the Time of the Buddha

31

Kumkum Roy

2. What the Vinayas Can Tell Us about Law

46

Petra Kieffer-Pu?lz

3. Keeping the Buddha's Rules: The View from the Su?tra Pit.aka 63 Rupert Gethin

4. Proper Possessions: Buddhist Attitudes toward

Material Property

78

Jacob N. Kinnard

5. On the Legal and Economic Activities of Buddhist Nuns:

Two Examples from Early India

91

Gregory Schopen

part ii buddhism and law in south and southeast asia

6. Buddhism and Law in Sri Lanka

117

Sunil Goonasekera

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7. Flanked by Images of Our Buddha: Community, Law, and

Religion in a Premodern Buddhist Context

135

Jonathan S. Walters

8. The Legal Regulation of Buddhism in Contemporary

Sri Lanka

150

Benjamin Schonthal

9. Pa?li Buddhist Law in Southeast Asia

167

Andrew Huxley

10. Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic

Inheritance in Seventeenth-Century Burma

183

Christian Lammerts

part iii buddhism and law in east asia

11. Buddhism and Law in China: The Emergence of Distinctive

Patterns in Chinese History

201

T.H. Barrett

12. The Ownership and Theft of Monastic Land in Ming China 217 Timothy Brook

13. Buddhism and Law in China: Qing Dynasty to the Present 234 Anthony Dicks

14. Buddhism and Law in Korean History: From Parallel

Transmission to Institutional Divergence

255

Mark A. Nathan

15. Buddhism and Law in Japan

273

Brian Ruppert

16. Relic Theft in Medieval Japan

288

Bernard Faure

part iv buddhism and law in north asia and the himalayan region

17. Buddhism and Law in Tibet

305

Rebecca Redwood French

18. Buddhist Laws in Mongolia

319

Vesna A. Wallace

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