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  title info:
    title: Buddhism in court
    sub title: religion, law, and jurisdiction in China
  name:
    name part: Liu, Cuilan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: What happens to Buddhist monks and nuns who commit crimes? Buddhism in Court is the first book to uncover a long-overlooked Buddhist campaign for clerical legal privileges that aim to exempt monks and nuns from being tried and punished in the courtroom. It unveils this campaign's origins in Indian Buddhism and how Chinese Buddhists' engagement with it reshaped Buddhism's place in the jurisdictional landscape in China from the fourth century to the present. In Asia, the jurisdictional boundary between Buddhism and the state was never fixed. Buddhism in Court is the first study to examine the unique contribution of Chinese Buddhists in negotiating that boundary by creating what Cuilan Liu describes as "hybrid courts" and "hybrid laws" in the fourth century to deal exclusively with religious legal matters. Drawing on various pre-modern and contemporary primary sources in Chinese, Buddhism in Court traces the legacy of the campaign for clerical legal privileges from its origins in India to its transformation in China and its continuing impact in the Chinese courtroom to the present day. Diverting from the dynasty-centered approach to studying religion, law and history in China, Buddhism in Court expands our understanding of this legacy of early Chinese Buddhism and challenges the notion that the passage between imperial and post-imperial China was one of disruption.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I. Indian Origins: 1. Litigation Ban -- 2. The Adulterous Wife's Sanctuary -- 3. Buddhist Killers at Large -- 4. Withered Orchid and Dead Ox -- Part II. In the Chinese Courtroom: 5. Hybrid Courts, Hybrid Laws -- 6. A Fallen Abbot -- 7. Dead Monks, Living Heirs -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Cuilan Liu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Buddhists
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Buddhism and law
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Buddhist influences
  classification: KNQ2688 .L58 2024
  classification: 342.5108/52943
  identifier: 9780197663332
  identifier: 0197663338
  identifier: 9780197663356
  identifier: 2023056785
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231212
    record change date: 20250228143406.2
    record identifier: in00005618934