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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Religion\, The Fund for the Study of World Re
 ligions\, \nCenter for Freedom and Western Civilization\,\n Asian Studies\
 , and CORE Communities\n\nLunch provided\, please RSVP  Religion@Colgate.e
 du\n\nHistorians of law and religion often underscore the defining influen
 ce of colonial officials in shaping\, even inventing\, regimes of ‘Hindu
  law’ and ‘Muslim law’ in Asia. Can the same be said about Buddhist 
 law? In this talk\, I draw on a collection of Sinhala and Pāli monastic l
 egal texts from nineteenth-century Ceylon/Sri Lanka to offer another persp
 ective. I hope to explain why developments in Buddhist legal practice were
  not so much products of European adulteration as the outcomes of delibera
 te and proactive innovation by Buddhist monastic lawmakers as well as the 
 outgrowths of a more general atmosphere of 'inter-legality.'  \n\nBenjamin
  Schonthal is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Head of the Religion Progr
 amme at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, where he also co
 -directs the Otago Centre for Law and Society. Ben received his Ph.D. from
  the University of Chicago and has held visiting positions at Northwestern
  University\, the Institute for Advanced Studies (Bielefeld) and the Law S
 chool at the University of Chicago. Ben's research examines the intersecti
 ons of religion\, law and politics in South and Southeast Asia. He is the 
 author of Buddhism\, Politics and the Limits of Law (CUP\, 2016) and co-ed
 itor of Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law (CUP\, 2023\, with Tom
  Ginsburg). His current book project\, Law's Karma\, supported by the Roya
 l Society of New Zealand\, examines the institutions\, politics and practi
 ces of Buddhist law in contemporary Southern Asia.
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SUMMARY:Finding Buddhist Law in Colonial Ceylon/Sri Lanka
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