Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850 9780824876098

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Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850 9780824876098

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
CHAPTER 1. Buddhist Law in Burma
PART I. Sources
CHAPTER 2. Before the Law Traces of Dhammasattha in Buddhist Legal and Textual Culture, c. 1250–1600
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, 1681–c. 1850
CHAPTER 6. Conclusion Sakka’s Thunderbolt
Appendix. Four Dhammasattha Bibliographies (1768–c. 1818)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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