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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.

The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet

The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet

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    426 pages

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    15 February 2013

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Summary

The “golden yoke” of Buddhist Tibet was the last medieval legal system still in existence in the middle of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs that system as a series of layered narratives from the memories of people who participated in the daily operation of law in the houses and courtyards, the offices and courts of Tibet prior to 1959. The practice of law in this unique legal world, which lacked most of our familiar signposts, ranged from the fantastic use of oracles in the searc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781559391719
ISBN-10:1559391715
Author:Rebecca Redwood French
Publisher:Snow Lion Publications
Imprint:Snow Lion Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:426
Edition:2nd
Release Date:15 February 2013
Weight:898g
Dimensions:27mm x 180mm x 254mm
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“A work of the highest caliber. A must-read for anyone who is not satisfied with either romanticism or negative propaganda and wants a realistic picture of life in old Tibet.”–Robert A. F. Thurman “Rebecca French has written one of the two best books of the last twenty years on the legal cultures and legal history of Asia… . French will surely be the last anthropologist to have studied an undiluted, pre-modern, literate legal system by talking to its practitioners.”–Andrew Huxley, Yale Law Journal

About The Author

Rebecca Redwood French

Rebecca Redwood French practiced law before obtaining an LL.M. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. She is currently Professor of Law at SUNY Buffalo. She writes in the areas of religion, law, and social theory and is currentlyworking on a book entitled The Spirit of Buddhist Law for a comparative law series.

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