2081/082 The Transformative Influence of Buddhist Philosophy on the Evolution of Nepalese Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Analytical Study
Lect. Megnath Khanal, Asst. Lect. Dayaram Bhandari and others
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Buddhism is an enlightenment philosophy germinated in the soil of South Asia
based on Siddhartha Gautam’s [hereinafter Buddha] teachings. This philosophy has
existed for thousands of years and has spread across Asia and more recently to the West
without being organized by a unified institutional authority with numerous, divergent
forms of Buddhist thoughts and practices. It is said that Buddha gave 84,000 teachings
in all and each of them has been the subject of multiple translations, interpretations, and
debates for millennia. With this caveat, it is still possible to distill a fundamental core of
commonly held Buddhist tenets (Long36)……………..
