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...
| Published in: | History of religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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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 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sri Lanka
/ Buddhism
/ Rule of a religious order
/ Religious change
/ History 1700-1920
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBM Asia KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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