Dear All,

I’d like to announce the publication of the second volume of Buddhism, Law & Society.

Petra Kieffer-Pülz

Buddhism, Law & Society. Vol.  2 – 2016–2017

CONTENTS

Rebecca Redwood French – Editor's Introduction, vii–xvii

Jens W. Borgland – “Undetermined Matters: On the Use of Lay Witnesses in Buddhist Monastic Procedural Law”, pp. 1–55

Vesna A. Wallace – “The Interface of Mongolian Nomadic Culture, Law and Monastic Sexual Morality”, pp. 57–75

Richard W. Whitecross – “Of Texts and Drama: Delivering Justice in Bhutan”, pp. 77–101

Petra Kieffer-Pülz – “Translocal Debates and Legal Hermeneutics: Early Pāli Vinaya Texts in the Adjudication of Sīmā Procedures, c. 1200–1900 CE”, pp. 103–158

Ann Heirman – “Withdrawal from the Monastic Community and Re-ordination of Former Monastics in the Dharmaguptaka Tradition”, pp. 159–196

Shayne Clarke – “Lost in Tibet, Found in Bhutan: The Unique Nature of the Mūlasarvāstivādin Law Code for Nuns”, pp. 197–291