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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University of Chicago Press
2021
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History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 287-324 |
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Sri Lanka
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