Contents
1Introduction: Mapping the Buddhist–Constitutional Complex in Asia
7Guardians of the Law: Sinhala Language and Buddhist Reformation in Postwar Sri Lanka
8Thai Constitutions as a Battle Ground for Political Authority: Barami versus Vox Populi
9Establishing the King as the Source of the Constitution: Shifting ‘Bricolaged’ Narratives of Buddhist Kingship from Siam to Thailand
10Buddhist Constitutionalism beyond Constitutional Law: Buddhist Statecraft and Military Ideology in Myanmar
11Reconstituting the Divided Sangha: Buddhist Authority in Post-Conflict Cambodia
Part IVNorthern and Northeastern asia
12Constitutional Buddhism: Japanese Buddhists and Constitutional Law
14The Buddhist Association of China and Constitutional Law in Buddhist Majority Nations: The International Channels of Influence
15Governing “Lamaism” on the “Frontier”: Buddhism and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Inner Mongolia
16Buddhist Constitutional Battlegrounds: Using the Courts to Litigate Monastic Celibacy in South Korea (1955–1970)