Buddhist Law in Burma – A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250…

Buddhist Law in BurmaA History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 12501850\nAuthor(s): D. Christian Lammerts\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824889937, 978-0824889937\nSynopsis\nBurma 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. \n\nBased on a critical study of hundreds of little-known .