Theory and method
*Childs, Geoff: "Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies" i Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, October 2005.
*Gellner, David N.: "Introduction: What is the Anthropology og Buddhism About?" i Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21:2, 1990.
*Goldstein, Melvyn C.: "The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics" i Journal of Asian Studies, 32 (3), 445-55, 1973.
*Huber, Toni: "Ritual Revival and Innovation at Bird Cemetery Mountain" i Amdo Tibetans in Transition. Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era, 2002. Leiden: Brill.
*Lewis, Todd T.: "Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Etnographic Paradigms" i Stephen D. Glazier (red.): Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, 1997. Greenwood Press.
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: "The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism" i Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2), 139-153, 1963.
*Ramble, Charles: "How Buddhist are Buddhist Communities? The Construction of Tradition in two Lamaist Villages" i Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 21:2, 1990.
*Reynolds, Frank: "Buddhism and the Anthropologists; Some Comments Concerning Recent Works on Southeast Asia" i History of Religions 11: 303-318, 1972.
*Samuel, Geoffrey: "Tibet and the Southeast Asian Highlands; Rethinking the Intellectual Context of Tibetan Studies" i Per Kv?rne (ed.): Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992, 1994. Oslo: The Institute of Comparative Research in Human Culture.
*Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja: "Buddhism and This-Worldly Activity" i Modern Asian Studies 7 (1), 1-20, 1973.
*Can be bought as a compendium at the copy outlet at Akademika.
Theravada Buddhism
Gombrich, Richard and Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka, 1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Mahayana Buddhism
Goldstein, Melvyn C. and Kapstein, Matthew T.: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, 1998. Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Childs, Geoff: Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, 2004. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Recommended literature for further reading
Carrithers, Michael: The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study, 1993. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Gombrich: Richard F.: Buddhist Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon, Revised Edition 1991. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Holmberg, David H.: Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang, 1989. Ithaka: Cornell University Press.
Huber, Tony: The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, 1999. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mumford, Stan R.: Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal, 1989. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
Samuel, Geoffrey: Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, 1993. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Spiro; Melford E.: Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes, 1982 (1970). Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Tambiah, Stanley J.: Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand, 1970. London: Cambridge University Press.