The Dalai Lama speaks on law

Buffalo Law Review

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 647-674

  French, Rebecca R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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References (30)

1. App. B, infra p. 722.
2. See MARK TEBBIT, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 20 (2d ed. 2005) (discussing John Austin's theory of sovereignty).
3. See HANS KELSEN, PURE THEORY OF LAW 71 (Max Knight trans., Lawbook Exchange 2002) (1967).
4. See H.L.A. HART, THE CONCEPT OF LAW 79-99 (2d ed. 1994).
5. RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE (1986).
6. App. B, infra pp. 727-28, 730.
7. App. B, infra p. 726; see also infra p. 732 (the Dalia Lama discusses the normal trajectory of a legal decision-making process).
8. App. B, infra p. 730.
9. In terms of legal theory, the Dalai Lama is adopting the more sophisticated hermeneutic stance that intetpretations are attempts to contextualize laws rather than a search for the one correct answer. This is another surorising position presented in his talk. Tha Dalai Lama is distinctly rejecting legal formalism.
10. App. B, infra p. 727.
11. See Rebecca French, Interdependence and Victim Compensation: Views from Buddhist Tibet and Post-9/11 United States, in FAITH AND LAW: HOW RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS FROM CALVINISM TO ISLAM VIEW AMERICAN LAW (Robert Cochran ed., forthcoming).
12. See REBECCA REDWOOD FRENCH, THE GOLDEN YOKE: THE LEGAL COSMOLOGY OF BUDDHIST TIBET 137-38 (1995).
13. App. B, infra p. 731. He also discussed the critical debating skills and training in logic of the monks as a form of reasoning. See infra p. 727.
14. App. B, infra pp. 734-35.
15. See supra note 11 for a more extended discussion of these ideas.
16. App. B, infra pp. 733-34.
17. See DIALOGUES OF THE BUDDHA (T.W. Rhys Davids trans., 1899), reprinted in 2 SACRED BOOKS OF THE BUDDHISTS 74-75 (F. Max Müller ed., 1956).
18. App. B, infra pp. 728-29.
19. The Tibetan refugee population has not been altogether pleased with his pronouncements as they want him to retain an important role. In this talk at Buffalo, His Holiness described his current position in the government as one of "semi-retirement."
20. App. B, infra pp. 721, 723-24.
21. App. B, infra pp. 720, 727.
22. PETER HARVEY, AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST ETHICS 50 (2000).
23. App. B, infra p. 732.
24. App. B, infra pp. 726, 732.
25. DAVID GARLAND, PUNISHMENT AND MODERN SOCIETY 24 (1990) (discussing Émile Durkheim's social theories).
26. App. B, infra pp. 722-23.
27. THE EDICTS OF ASOKA 38 (N.A. Nikam & Richard McKeon eds., N.A. Nikam & Richard McKeon trans., 1966).
28. App. B, infra p. 726.
29. See Part III.D.
30. See FRENCH, supra note 12.