The Golden Yoke : the Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet /

The Golden Yoke is a remarkable achievement. It is the first elaboration of the legal, cultural, and ideological dimensions of precommunist Tibetan jurisprudence, a unique legal system that maintains its secularism within a thoroughly Buddhist setting. Layer by layer, Rebecca Redwood French reconstr...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: French, Rebecca Redwood (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv413ps
Sadržaj:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Note on Tibetan Translation, Transliteration, and Citation
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. THE CONTEXT OF TIBET
  • PART TWO. THE COSMOLOGY OF LAW
  • PART THREE. REPORTS FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE
  • PART FOUR. REPORTS FROM THE CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY
  • PART FIVE. CRIMES AND OFFICIALS
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Tibetan Word Index
  • General Index