The Kurudhamma: From Ethics to Statecraft
Andrew Huxley
Abstract:
This article compares two literary treatments of a Buddhist ethical motif.
In the prose sections of the Kurudhamma Jaataka the motif is expanded
into a collection of ethical casuistry. In the Kurudhamma ka.n.da pa~nho,
it is expanded into a series of job descriptions for the king and ten of
his subordinates. Description of these provokes discussion of the history
of the practice of ethics by Buddhist monks and Buddhist courtiers.
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