Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

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Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Edited by Tom Ginsburg · Ben Schonthal
Cambridge University Press December 2022

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ISBN-13
9781009286046
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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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