Buddhist Law beyond the Vinaya: Monastic Constitutions (katikāvatas) and Their Transformations in Colonial Sri Lanka

This article urges scholars to look beyond the Vinaya Piṭaka when thinking about the regulation of Buddhist monastic life. It makes this case by examining an understudied genre of vernacular legal texts that has influenced the regulation of monks in Sri Lanka for more than a millennium. Monastic con...

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Main Author: Schonthal, Benjamin 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
In: History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 287-324
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sri Lanka / Buddhism / Rule of a religious order / Religious change / History 1700-1920
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
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