Buddhist Law in Burma : a History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250-1850 /

Burma and neighboring areas of Southeast Asia comprise the only region of the world to have developed a written corpus of Buddhist law claiming jurisdiction over all members of society. Yet in contrast with the extensive scholarship on Islamic and Hindu law, this tradition of Buddhist law has been l...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lammerts, D. Christian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]
Temas:
Burmese Buddhist law > Sources.
Law > Burma > Buddhist influences > History > Sources.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Law > Buddhist influences
Burmese Buddhist law
Buddhismus
Buddhistische Literatur
Dharma
Recht
Rechtsprechung
Burma
Birma
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • CHAPTER 1. Buddhist Law in Burma
  • PART I. Sources
  • CHAPTER 2. Before the Law Traces of Dhammasattha in Buddhist Legal and Textual Culture, c. 1250-1600
  • CHAPTER 3 Dhammavilāsa Legal Text and Cosmology in the Early Seventeenth Century
  • CHAPTER 4. Manusāra History, Jurisdiction, Authorship
  • PART II. Revisions and Reasons
  • CHAPTER 5. Dhammasattha and Its Discontents, 1681-c. 1850
  • CHAPTER 6. Conclusion Sakka's Thunderbolt
  • Appendix. Four Dhammasattha Bibliographies (1768-c. 1818)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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