Theory and Method
*Gellner, David N.: "Introduction: What is the Anthropology og Buddhism About?" in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21:2 , 1990.
*Lewis, Todd T.: "Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Etnographic Paradigms" in Stephen D. Glazier (red.): Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, 1997. Greenwood Press.
*Ramble, Charles: "How Buddhist are Buddhist Communities? The Construction of Tradition in two Lamaist Villages" in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 21:2, 1990.
**Samuel, Geoffrey: “Tibet and the Southeast Asian Highlands: Rethinking the Intellectual Context of Tibetan Studies.” In Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992. 1994. Oslo: The institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. pp. 696-711.
** Samuel, Geoffrey: “Tibetan Buddhism as a World Religion: Global Networking and its Consequences.” , Paper presented at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Kings’ College, University of London, 1995. (Revised 1996). http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~mbbgbs/Geoffrey/global.html.
*Can be bought as a compendium at the copy outlet at Akademika.
Buddhism in Tibet and the Himalayas
Goldstein, Melvyn C. and Kapstein, Matthew T.: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, 1998. Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press.
**Slobdonik, Martin: “Destruction and Revival: The Fate of the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Labrang in the People’s Republic of China.” , 2004. Religion, State and Society 32 (1)..
And choose one of the following monographs:
Childs, Geoff: Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, 2004. Berkeley: University of California Press.
or
Mills, Martin A.: Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism, 2003. London: Routledge.
Recommended literature for further reading
Bowie, Fiona.The Anthropology of Religion. 2000. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Huber, Toni: The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, 1999. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lambek, Michael (ed.):A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2008, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Mumford, Stan R.:Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal, 1989. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: "The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism" i Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2), 1963.
Prebish, Charles S. og Damien Keown:Introducing Buddhism, 2006. Routledge: UK.
Ramble, Charles:The Navel of the Demoness. Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal, 2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
Samuel, Geoffrey: Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, 1993. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
*Tambiah, Stanley J.: "Buddhism and This-Worldly Activity" i Modern Asian Studies 7 (1): 1-20, 1973.