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ISBN 13: 9780824872601
Author: D Christian Lammerts

Lammerts’s book is a crucial contribution to a seriously understudied topic: the Buddhist lay law in precolonial Burma. Considering the extensive textual corpus of Burmese legal texts and the fact that there are only a few reliable translations of these texts into English, the reviewed volume is intended ‘to serve as a sort of prolegomenon to any such study’ (p. 13). This is a humble understatement: Lammerts’s monograph is the first critical study of dhammasattha, a form (or rather forms) of Buddhist law in precolonial Burma and its textual corpus. Burma is among the few regions of the Buddhist world to have developed a written corpus of Buddhist law that claimed jurisdiction over all members of society, and the author rightly warns against a well-established view that Buddhist law is coextensive with the monastic law (vinaya).

Buddhist Law in Burma A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence 1250 1850 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Buddhist Law in Burma

Part I – Sources
Chapter 2 – Before the Law: Traces of Dhammasattha in Buddhist Legal and Textual Culture
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
Chapter 6 – Conclusion: Sakka’s Thunderbolt

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