Ben Schonthal: At the Seams of Saṅgha and State: Legal Pluralism and Buddhist Monasticism in Contemporary Sri Lanka.

Name: Ben Schonthal: At the Seams of Saṅgha and State: Legal Pluralism and Buddhist Monasticism in Contemporary Sri Lanka.
Start: 2018-10-22T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-10-22T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Scott Hall, 212

Monday, October 22, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT

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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.

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