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Title |
Title of document |
3. Buddhists, Politics and International Law - Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Ben Schonthal; University of Otago; New Zealand |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Buddhist Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
Michael Jerryson; Buddhism and violence; religion and violence; religious nationalism; Buddhist history; Burma; religious authority |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Buddhism and Violence |
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Description |
Abstract |
In this chapter, I examine connections between Buddhist law and international law not from a theoretical or philosophical perspective (as tends to be the case in scholarship) but from an empirical perspective. In particular, I look closely at the story of a single Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka whose domestic arguments about Buddhist law ended up forming the groundwork for a United Nations’ Resolution relating to the status of religious symbols. Drawing on legal archives from Sri Lanka and the UN as well as other monastic legal texts, I hope to illustrate how and why Buddhist monks in the contemporary world might work as agents of international law, even unwittingly. I also hope to add a consideration of processes, persons and institutions into a discussion of Buddhism and international law that has, to date, been largely abstract, disembodied and speculative. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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05-Oct-2022 |
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Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40724 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.40724 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |