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Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet
By: Redwood French

Golden Yoke:The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet


 
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Author: Redwood French
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781559391719
Publication Date: 2002


Product Code: 11130
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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 search for evidence to the more mundane presentation of cases in court.
Buddhism and law, two topics rarely interwinded in Western consciousness, are at the center of this work. The Tibetan legal system was based on Buddhist philosophy and reflected Buddhist thought in legal practice and decision making. For Tibetans, law is a cosmology, a kaleidoscopic patterning of relations which is constantly changing, recycling, and re-forming even as it integrates the universe and the individual into a timeless mandalic whole.
The Golden Yoke causes us to rethink American legal culture. It argues that in the United States legal matters are segregated into a separate space with rigidly defined categories. The legal cosmology of Buddhist Tibet brings into question both this autonomous framework 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, Rebecca Redwood French, Snow Lion Publications, 404 pages, $21.95

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