Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History

Jeannine Bischoff is a doctoral student at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research focuses on Tibetan administrative documents concerning the rural communities attached to Kundeling monastery, in Central Tibet, before 1959. Saul Mullard completed his D.Phil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 2009. He has published numerous works on the history of Sikkim, including Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History(Brill, 2011).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSaul Mullard: Regulating Sikkimese Society: The Fifteen-clause Domestic Settlement (Nang ’dum) of 1876Charles Ramble and Nyima Drandul: Reason against Tradition: An Attempt at Cultural Reform in a Tibetan-speaking Community in Panchayat-Era NepalBerthe Jansen: Monastic Guidelines (bCa’ yig): Tibetan Social History from a Buddhist Studies PerspectiveAlice Travers: The lCags stag dmag khrims (1950): A New Development in Tibetan Legal and Military History?Peter Schwieger: On the Exercise of Jurisdiction in Southeast Tibet after the Rise of the Ganden Phodrang GovernmentJeannine Bischoff: Completely, Voluntarily and Unalterably? – Values and Social Regulation among Central Tibetan Mi ser during the Ganden Phodrang PeriodYuri Komatsubara: A Study of the Treaty of the First Tibet-Gorkha war of 1789Kensaku Okawa: A Study of gTan tshigs: A Genre of Land Tenure Document and its Implication in Tibetan Social HistoryKalsang Norbu Gurung: Different copies of the Iron-Tiger Land Settlement and their Historical Value as Taxation Manuals Fernanda Pirie: State, Law, and Morality in Traditional TibetIndex