When:
Monday, October 22, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Where: Scott Hall, 212, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Gina Giliberti
Group: Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Category: Academic
Contrary to popular stereotypes, Buddhist monks do not live in separate, cloistered worlds sealed off from government lawmaking and courts. Buddhist monks (like most people) live in a complex situation of legal pluralism. This talk examines this legal pluralism—and polemical arguments about it—through the vantage point of a particular crisis that has dominated Sri Lanka’s newspapers over the last few months involving the imprisonment of a famous Buddhist monk.