Table of Contents

• The Role of Pilgrimages, Travelogues and Scholarly Reports in Buddhist Law: Editor's Introduction
  Rebecca Redwood French
• Talking Wittily with an Ill-Behaved Monk: On a Reference to the *Jetavanasūtra in the Mūlasarvāstivāda
  Vinaya Fumi Yao
• Judicial Ordeals in Premodern Thailand: Robert Lingat’s “Les ordalies au siam” (1949), An Annotated Translation and Commentary
  D. Christian Lammerts
• Abolishment, Ambiguity, and the Abyss: Buddhists’ Positions on the Death Sentence in Early Modern Tibet
  Berthe Jansen
• The Tibetan Governmental Transport and Postal System: Horse Services and Other Taxes from the 13th to the 20th Centuries
  Petra Maurer
• Regulations for Mongolian Monasteries Composed by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas in Support of Transnational Géluk Monasticism
  Vesna A. Wallace

• The Integrated Discipline of Buddhism and Law: Editor’s Introduction
  Rebecca Redwood French
• Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Scholars on Dharma, Law, Politics, and Social Ethics: Philosophical Discussions in Boudhanath (Nepal)
  Miguel Álvarez Ortega
• Thailand’s Lèse-Majesté Law: On Blasphemy in a Buddhist Kingdom
  Eugénie Mériea
• Purifying the Pātimokkha: Pali Grammar and Buddhist Law in 17th-century Haṃsāvatī
  Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
• The First Saṅgha Law (Kot phrasong 1), issued by King Rāma I in CE 1782
  Prapod Assavavirulhakarn & Peter Skilling [Bhadra Rujirathat]
• Indian Buddhist Bathrooms: Politeness, Disgust and Monastic Law
  Christopher Handy

Special Volume on Monastic Governance in South and Southeast Asia

• Guest Editor’s Introduction: Buddhist Legal Pluralism? Looking Again at Monastic Governance in Modern South and Southeast Asia
  Ben Schonthal
• Monks and Ambiguities of Law in Myanmar
  Matthew Walton & Aung Tun
• Monastic Discipline and Communal Rules for Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar and Thailand
  Monica Lindberg Falk & Hiroko Kawanami
• Litigating Vinaya: Buddhist Law and Public Law in Contemporary Sri Lanka
  Ben Schonthal
• Political Disrobing in Thailand
  Thomas Borchert & Susan M. Darlington
• Imagined Laity and the Performance of Monasticism in Northern Thailand
  Michael R. Chladek
• Governing the Monastic Order in Laos: Pre-modern Buddhist Legal Traditions and Their Transformation under French Colonialism
  Gregory Kourilsky & Patrice Ladwig

• Is Buddhist Law “Sophisticated”?: Editor’s Introduction
  Rebecca Redwood French
• Undetermined Matters: On the Use of Lay Witnesses in Buddhist Monastic Procedural Law
  Jens W. Borgland
• The Interface of Mongolian Nomadic Culture, Law and Monastic Sexual Morality
  Vesna Wallace
• Of Texts and Drama: Delivering Justice in Bhutan
  Richard Whitecross
• Translocal Debates and Legal Hermeneutics: Early Pāli Vinaya Texts in the Adjudication of Sīmā Procedures, c. 1200–1900 CE
  Petra Kieffer-Pülz
• Withdrawal from the Monastic Community and Re-ordination of Former Monastics in the Dharmaguptaka Tradition
  Ann Heirman

• Editor’s Introduction
  Rebecca Redwood French
• Re-ordination of Former Buddhist Nuns in the Theravāda Tradition
  Petra Kieffer-Pülz
• Women’s Aspirations and Soteriological Agency in Sarvāstivāda and Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Narratives
  Dhammadinnā Bhikkhunī
• Ideology and Law: The Three Seals Code on Crimes Related to Relics, Images, and Bodhi-trees
  Peter Skilling
• How King Rāmādhipati Handled His Boundary Case: Sīmā, Sāsana, and Buddhist Law
  Jason A. Carbine
• Negotiating Modalities of Succession: The Interplay between Different Legal Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Mongolia
  Dorothea Heuschert-Laage