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The Golden Yoke causes us to rethink American legal culture. The legal cosmology of Buddhist Tibet brings into question both the autonomous framework underlying this system and most of the presumptions we have about the very nature of law, from precedent and res judicata to rule formation and closure.

As the first comprehensive study of Buddhism and law in Asia, this interdisciplinary volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law. Buddhism and Law draws on the expertise of the foremost scholars in Buddhist studies and in law to trace the legal aspects of the religion from the time of the Buddha to the present. In some cases, Buddhism provided the crucial architecture for legal ideologies and secular law codes, while in other cases it had to contend with a preexisting legal system, to which it added a new layer of complexity. The...