2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Buddhism and Law in South-Eastern Himalaya: An analysis of the conceptions of law, fairness, and legitimacy in medieval and pre-modern Bhutan, Sikkim, and related areas
| Project/Area Number |
20K22056
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0105:Law and related fields
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Legal Philosophy / Political Philosophy / Buddhism / Tibet / Himalaya |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I conducted a research on the socio-political meaning of the reaction of Tibetan lamas to the covid crisis, comparing Buddhist sources and advice and guidelines provided by them mainly in social media. The results were published in a collective volume in entitled “Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of the Pandemic” and presented in the international conference “Interface Dialogue on Religion and Pandemics” (SBU, Tehran, Iran). I have translated and analyzed the “Union of Politics and Buddhist Dharma” by Tibet-based Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro, which presents a novel approach comparing the traditional Buddhist Tibetan model of a Dharma-inspired system respectful of religious freedom with the Western models of Theocracy on the one hand and Separation of Church and State on the other. I have located, translated and analyzed Japanese sources so far ignored in Western Academia, namely the works of H. Sato and Z. Yamaguchi on the legal, political, and military system of the Tibetan Empire
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| Free Research Field |
Legal & Political Studies
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Academically: analysis of Tibetan primary sources, on the relation Religion-Politics, and Japanese secondary sources, on the law of the Tibetan Empire, unstudied in Western Academia. Socially: study on lama’s reactions to the covid as a socio-politically exemplary.
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