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| Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850 | ||
| 作者 | Lammerts, D. Christian (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2018.08.31 |
| 頁次 | 304 |
| 出版者 | University of Hawaii Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Associate Professor, Buddhist and Southeast Asian Studies, Rutgers University. |
| 摘要 | 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 largely overlooked. In fact, it is commonplace to read that Buddhism gave rise to no law aside from the vinaya, or monastic law. In Buddhist Law in Burma, D. Christian Lammerts upends this misperception and provides an intellectual and literary history of the dynamic jurisprudence of the dhammasattha legal genre between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on a critical study of hundreds of little-known surviving dhammasattha and related manuscripts, Buddhist Law in Burma demonstrates the centrality of law as a crucial discipline of Buddhist knowledge in precolonial Southeast Asia. Composed by lay and monastic jurists in prose and verse, in Pali, Burmese, and other regional vernaculars, dhammasattha were intended for use by judges to guide the adjudication of legal disputes. Lammerts argues that there were multiple, sometimes contentious, modes of reckoning Buddhist jurisprudence and legal authority in the region and assesses these in the context of local cultural, textual, and ritual practices. Over time the foundational jurisprudence of the genre underwent considerable reformulation in light of arguments raised by its critics, bibliographers, and historians, resulting in a reorientation from a cosmological to a more positivist conception of Buddhist law and legislation that had far-reaching implications for innovative forms of dhammasattha-related discourse on the eve of British colonialism. Buddhist Law in Burma shows how, despite such textual and theoretical transformations, late precolonial Burmese jurists continued to promote and justify the dhammasattha genre, and the role of law generally in Buddhism, as a vital aspect of the ongoing effort to protect and preserve the sāsana of Gotama Buddha. The book will be of value to students and scholars interested in the rich legal, intellectual, and cultural histories of Buddhism in Burma and Southeast Asia, or in the historical intersections of law and Buddhism. |
| 目次 | Acknowledgements ix Note on Transliteration and Trsnaltion xi 1 Buddhist Law in Burma 1 Part I. Sources 2 Before the Law: Traces of Dhammasattha in Buddhist Legal and Textual Culture, c. 1250-1600 21 3 Dhammavilāsa: Legal text and Cosmology in the Early Seventeenth Century 46 4 Manusāra: History, Jurisdiction, Authorship 89 Part II. Revisions and Reasons 5 Dhammasattha and Its Discontents, 1681-c. 1850 137 6 Conclusion: Sakka's Thunderbolt 179 Appendix. Four Dhammasattha Bibliographies (1768-c. 1818) 195 Notes 205 Bibliography 253 Index 281 |
| ISBN | 9780824872601 (hbc); 0824872606 (hbc); 9780824876098 (eBook); 0824876091 (eBook) |
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| 建檔日期 | 2024.09.10 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.09.10 |
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