ISBN-13: 9780824872601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.
ISBN-13: 9780824872601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.
Provides an intellectual and literary history of the dynamic jurisprudence of the dhammasattha legal genre between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on a critical study of hundreds of little-known surviving dhammasattha and related manuscripts, Buddhist Law in Burma demonstrates the centrality of law as a crucial discipline of Buddhist knowledge in precolonial Southeast Asia.