Editing Polygamy (section)

===Buddhism===
[[Buddhism]] does not regard marriage as a [[sacrament]]; it is purely a [[secular]] affair.  Normally Buddhist monks do not participate in it (though in some sects priests and monks do marry). Hence marriage receives no religious sanction.<ref name="access to insight">{{cite web |url= http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/dewaraja/wheel280.html |title= Accesstoinsight.org |publisher= Accesstoinsight.org |access-date= 13 September 2011 |archive-date= 18 March 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220318150918/https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/dewaraja/wheel280.html |url-status= live }}</ref> Forms of marriage, in consequence, vary from country to country. The Parabhava [[List of suttas|Sutta]] states that "a man who is not satisfied with one woman and seeks out other women is on the path to decline". Other fragments in the Buddhist scripture seem to treat polygamy unfavorably, leading some authors to conclude that Buddhism generally does not approve of it<ref name="ethics of Buddhism">[https://books.google.com/books?id=URZNk9noWJEC&pg=PA101 The Ethics of Buddhism], Shundō Tachibana, Routledge, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-7007-0230-5}}</ref> or alternatively regards it as a tolerated, but subordinate, marital model.<ref name="introduction to Buddhist ethics">[https://books.google.com/books?id=URZNk9noWJEC&pg=PA101 An introduction to Buddhist ethics]: foundations, values, and issues, Brian Peter Harvey, Cambridge University Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-521-55640-8}}</ref>

[[Polygamy in Thailand]] was legally recognized until 1935. [[Polygamy in Myanmar]] was outlawed in 2015. In [[Sri Lanka]], polyandry was legal in the kingdom of Kandy, but outlawed by British after conquering the kingdom in 1815.<ref name="access to insight"/> When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the [[concubine]]s of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners. [[Polyandry in Tibet]] was traditionally common, as was polygyny, and having several wives or husbands was never regarded as having sex with inappropriate partners.<ref name="Berzin2010">{{cite web |url= http://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/path-to-enlightenment/karma-rebirth/buddhist-sexual-ethics-main-issues |title= Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Main Issues |work= Study Buddhism |first= Alexander |last= Berzin |date= 7 October 2010 |archive-date= 30 January 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160130091910/http://next.berzinarchives.com/tibetan-buddhism/guidelines-for-study/relating-the-teachings-to-personal-relationships/buddhist-sexual-ethics-main-issues |url-status= dead |access-date= 20 June 2016 }}</ref>
Most typically, fraternal polyandry is practiced, but sometimes father and son have a common wife, which is a unique family structure in the world. Other forms of marriage are also present, like group marriage and monogamous marriage.<ref name=Zeitzen/> Polyandry (especially fraternal polyandry) is also common in [[Tibet]]