Buddhism Politics And The Limits Of Law
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Author | : Benjamin Schonthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107152232 |
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.
Author | : Benjamin Schonthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1316824675 |
It is widely assumed that a well-designed and well-implemented constitution can help ensure religious harmony in modern states. Yet how correct is this assumption? Drawing on groundbreaking research from Sri Lanka, this book argues persuasively for another possibility: when it comes to religion, relying on constitutional law may not be helpful, but harmful; constitutional practice may give way to pyrrhic constitutionalism. Written in a lucid and direct style, and aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law explains why constitutional law has deepened, rather than diminished, conflicts over religion in Sri Lanka. Examining the roles of Buddhist monks, civil society groups, political coalitions and more, the book provides the first extended study of the legal regulation of religion in Sri Lanka as well as the first book-length analysis of the intersections of Buddhism and contemporary constitutional law.
Author | : Matthew J. Walton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110715569X |
Walton explains political dynamics in Myanmar through Buddhist thought, providing a conceptual framework for understanding Myanmar's ongoing political transition.
Author | : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-07-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 022624850X |
Religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as a condition for peace. Faced with reports of a rise in religious violence and a host of other social ills, public, and private actors have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the assumptions underlying this response? The contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption that religious freedom is a singular achievement and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Delineating the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and political contexts, the contributions make clear that the reasons for violence and discrimination are more complex than is widely acknowledged. The promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities often cited as falling short. -- from back cover.
Author | : Rebecca Redwood French |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521515793 |
This volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law.
Author | : David Traven |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108845002 |
Traven argues that universal moral beliefs and emotions shaped the evolution of international laws that protect civilians in war.
Author | : Paul R. Fleischman |
Publisher | : Pariyatti Publishing |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1928706223 |
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, this thought-provoking essay explores the Buddha's teaching to find one prescription: not war, not pacifism but nonviolence.
Author | : Wayne R. Husted |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136603107 |
It is difficult to think of a more urgent question for Buddhism in the late twentieth century than human rights. The political, ethical and philosophical questions surrounding human rights are debated vigorously in political and intellectual circles throughout the world and now in this volume.
Author | : Jean-Yves Leloup |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2009-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1620551101 |
A profound reflection on how complementary themes in Buddhism and Christianity could serve as the basis for a truly ecumenical faith • Compares Zen meditation with the Greek Orthodox practice of Hesychasm (prayer of the heart) • Shows how Buddha and Jesus represent the distinct yet complementary values of meditation and compassion In Asian spiritual traditions the mountain traditionally symbolizes meditation while the ocean signifies compassion. Jean-Yves Leloup uses this metaphor to compare Buddhist and Christian approaches to meditation and compassion to reveal the similarities and divergences of these profound practices. Emphasizing their complementary nature, Leloup describes how Jesus and Buddha are necessary to one another and how together they form a complete system: Jesus as awakening through love, and Buddha as awakening through meditation. Where Buddha represents the forests, Jesus represents the trees. Buddha is brother to the universe, whereas Jesus is brother to humanity. Nevertheless, these two religious traditions have a profound common ground. Compassion is central to Buddhism, and meditation practices have been central to many Christian traditions. Both view murder, theft, and the destructive use of sexuality as great barriers to realizing our essential being, and both agree on the need to rise above them. Here, however, Leloup suggests that both faiths could benefit from the precepts of the other. The complementary aspects of Christianity and Buddhism offer the possibility for a truly profound ecumenical religion whose interfaith relations are based on deep understanding of the true meaning and practice of meditation and compassion and not merely shared goodwill.
Author | : Max Oidtmann |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231545304 |
In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile to independently identify reincarnations. In so doing, they elevated a long-forgotten ceremony into a controversial symbol of Chinese sovereignty in Tibet. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann ventures into the polyglot world of the Qing empire in search of the origins of the golden urn tradition. He seeks to understand the relationship between the Qing state and its most powerful partner in Inner Asia—the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Why did the Qianlong emperor invent the golden urn lottery in 1792? What ability did the Qing state have to alter Tibetan religious and political traditions? What did this law mean to Qing rulers, their advisors, and Tibetan Buddhists? Working with both the Manchu-language archives of the empire’s colonial bureaucracy and the chronicles of Tibetan elites, Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology—a lottery for assigning administrative posts—was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for identifying and authenticating reincarnations. Forging the Golden Urn sheds new light on how the empire’s frontier officers grappled with matters of sovereignty, faith, and law and reveals the role that Tibetan elites played in the production of new religious traditions in the context of Qing rule.