'The traditions of Mahosadha': Legal reasoning from Northern Thailand

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Huxley, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 63149120565     PISSN: 0041977X     EISSN: 14740699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x00036417     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. A. Huxley, BSOAS, 51/3, 1988, 609-10
2. D. Wyatt, 'Presidential address: five voices from Southeast Asia', Journal of Asian Studies, 53, 1994, 1076-91
3. Mahā-ummagga Jātaka (no. 546)
4. A. Huxley, 'The Kurudhamma: from ethics to statecraft', Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2, 1995, 191-203; 200
5. Hallisey would prefer to describe such Pali stories as 'allegedly non-canonical' rather than 'apocryphal' or 'counterfeit': C. Hallisey, 'Nibbānasutta', Journal of the Pali Text Society, 18, 1993, 97-130; 97, n. 2
6. A. Huxley, 'Buddhism and Law: the view from Mandalay', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 18, 1995, 47-95; pp. 66-7
7. A. Huxley, 'Sanction in the Theravada Buddhist kingdoms of S. E. Asia', Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin, 58/4, 1991, 335-70; 352
8. P. S. Jaini, 'The story of Sudhana and Manohara: an analysis of the texts and the Borobudur Reliefs', BSOAS, 29/3, 1966, 533-58
9. I. B. Horner, Ten jataka stories each illustrating one of the ten pāramitā with Pali text (London: Luzac, 1956, xix)
10. A slightly different version of this tale, in which the woman who wins the baby must pay the price of an extra jar to her companion, appears in a collection of 12 Laotian judgement tales attributed to Grandfather King, the Ven. Chenla Bodhisatta: J. Brengues, 'Contes judiciaires laotiens', La Revue Indochine, 2, 1904, 124-8
11. e.g. B. C. Law, The history of the Buddha's religion (Sā sanavamcombining dot belowsa), (London: Luzac, 1952), 118-20. The monk who was later to win the title 'Tilokalankara' decided in the early seventeenth century to leave the order when aged about 25. An encounter with a mysterious, possibly supernatural, young woman changed his mind
12. The same story may be found in Leclère, Contes laotiens et contes cambodgiens, 47-51: 'Le diamant volé'
13. cf. A. Conan Doyle 'The adventure of Black Peter', in The complete Sherlock Holmes (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981), 558-72
14. Aroonrut Wichienkeeo, 'Lanna customary law', in A. Huxley (ed.), Thai law: Buddhist law: essays on the history of Thailand, Laos and Burma (Bangkok: White Orchid Press, 1996), 31-42; see 32, 41
15. and Bhummajeya's Manugye (c. 1752)
16. R. Okudaira, 'The role of Kaingza Manuraja', JAAS, 27, 1984, 180-86