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Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. By Benjamin Schonthal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1107152236.

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Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. By Benjamin Schonthal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1107152236.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2019

Bart Klem*
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Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Melbourne

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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2019 

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5 Iselin Frydenlund, “Canonical Ambiguity and Differential Practices: Buddhist Monks in Wartime Sri Lanka” (PhD diss., University of Oslo, 2011).