The golden yoke : the legal cosmology of Buddhist Tibet / Rebecca Redwood French
- Bib ID:
- 2532763
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- French, Rebecca Redwood
- Description:
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995
- xviii, 404 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0801430844 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 24. Crime and Punishment in Tibet
- Ch. 25. The Life History of Kungola Thubten Sangye
- Tibetan Word Index.
- Partial contents:
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- Note on Tibetan Translation, Transliteration, and Citation
- Ch. 1. A Sketch of Tibet and Its People
- Ch. 2. Reading Law Codes as Tibetan History
- Ch. 3. The Dalai Lamas and Recent History
- Ch. 4. Reality, Karma, and Nonduality
- Ch. 5. The Cosmos, Time, and the Nature of Conflict
- Ch. 6. Inner Morality and the Buddha
- Ch. 7. Myth and Narrative
- Ch. 8. Language, Debate, and Magic
- Ch. 9. Power and Hierarchy
- Ch. 10. Rituals of the Golden Yoke
- Ch. 11. Of Oracles, Oaths, and Dice
- Ch. 12. The Jurisprudence of Truth
- Ch. 13. Legal Space and Movement
- Ch. 14. Boundaries, Identities, and Levels
- Ch. 15. Legal Symbols and Representations
- Ch. 16. The Hail Protector of the Crystal Fortress
- Ch. 17. A Small Private Estate
- Ch. 18. A Large Private Estate
- Ch. 19. The District Court of Kyidong
- Ch. 20. The World of Lhasa
- Ch. 21. The City Court of Lhasa
- Ch. 22. The Municipal Office of Lhasa
- Ch. 23. The High Court of Tibet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-388) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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