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Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Author: Tom Ginsburg; Ben Schonthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009286046
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of experts, the volume offers a complex portrait of “the Buddhist-constitutional complex,” demonstrating the intricate and powerful ways in which Buddhist and constitutional ideas merged, interacted and co-evolved. The authors also highlight the important ways in which Buddhist actors have (re)conceived Western liberal ideals such as constitutionalism, rule of law, and secularism. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core, this trans-disciplinary volume is written to be accessible to a non-specialist audience.

1. Introduction: mapping the Buddhist-constitutional complex in Asia

Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal

Part I. Religious and Political Underpinnings:

2. Buddhism and constitutionalism in precolonial Southeast Asia

D. Christian Lammerts

3. Theorizing constitutionalism in Buddhist-dominant Asian polities Asanga Welikala

Part II. The Himalayas:

4. The Zhabdrung's legacy: Buddhism and constitutional transformation in Bhutan

Richard W. Whitecross

5. The 'trick of law': the hermeneutics of Early Buddhist law in Tibet

Martin A. Mills

6. Tibetan Buddhist monastic constitutional law and governmental constitutional law: mutual influences?

Berthe Jansen

Part III. South and Southeast Asia:

7. Guardians of the law: Sinhala language and Buddhist reformation in post-war Sri Lanka

Krishantha Fedricks

8. Thai constitutions as a battle ground for political authority: Barami versus 'vox populi'

Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang

9. Establishing the king as the source of the constitution: shifting 'bricolaged' narratives of Buddhist kingship from Siam to Thailand

Eugénie Mérieau

10. Buddhist constitutionalism beyond constitutional law: Buddhist statecraft and military ideology in Myanmar

Iselin Frydenlund

11. Reconstituting the divided Sangha: Buddhist authority in post-conflict Cambodia

Benjamin Lawrence

Part IV. North and Northeast Asia:

12. Constitutional Buddhism: Japanese Buddhists and constitutional law

Levi McLaughlin

13. Governing Buddhism in Vietnam

Bui Ngoc Son

14. The Buddhist Association of China and constitutional law in Buddhist majority nations: the international channels of influence

André Laliberté

15. Governing 'Lamaism' on the 'frontier': Buddhism and law in early twentieth century Inner Mongolia

Daigengna Duoer

16. Buddhist constitutional battlegrounds: using the courts to litigate monastic celibacy in South Korea (1955–1970)

Mark A. Nathan

Part V. Comparative Perspectives:

17. On the familiar pleasures of estrangement

Deepa Das Acevedo

18. Buddhism and constitutionalism: a comparison with the canon law

Richard H. Helmholz

19. Islam and constitutional law

Clark Lombardi

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