Do government laws have a trickle-down effect into monastic laws? Or is it the other way around? The adjudication of monastic law and the presence or absence of governmental intervention in such matters can indicate the status of the relationship between monasteries and state. Previous research has shown that many Tibetan Buddhist monasteries were distinct legal entities, with the power to try and punish not just the monks but also the lay-people who interacted with the clergy. This chapter is concerned with the ways in which these two types of constitutional laws were related to each other. While in the case of Bhutan certain state regulations were based on existing monastic guidelines, which suggests that monastic law directly inspired secular governmental policy, the picture for historical Tibet is less clear. The language of some “secular” legal texts reveals that their authors were very much aware of internal monastic laws and accommodated them. Similarly, the monastic rulebooks pointed out when monks were subject to state law. This chapter examines where and how government law and monastic law intersected in early modern Tibet and attempts to demonstrate the potential mutual influences and legal concerns.