… declaredly Buddhist rationales, narratives, and textual forms, along with Buddhist clerics and organizations, have shaped how governments, judiciaries, and everyday people understand the nature and purpose of constitutional projects. Moreover, we insist that a rigorous understanding of Buddhism, particularly since the mid-twentieth century, requires an awareness of how the rise of constitution-based national polities have affected and altered how Buddhists conceive their own structures and practices of self-administration.

An edited volume of contributions exploring the relationship between Buddhism and Constitutionalism across Asia.