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.
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: ""The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism"" in Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2), 1963.
*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.
#Electronically available.
In addition to articles on theory and method, students choose to specialize in Buddhism either in South and Southeast Asia or in Tibet and the Himalayas.
Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia
Choose one of the following books:
Gombrich, Richard F.: Buddhist Precept and Practice. Traditional Buddhism in the Highlands of Ceylon, 1971. London: Kegan Paul International.
Gombrich, Richard and Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka, 1988. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
Spiro, Melford E. : Buddhism and Society. A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes, 1970. New York: Harper & Row.
Or:
Buddhism in Tibet and the Himalayas
Choose one of the following books:
Childs, Geoff: Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, 2004. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Goldstein, Melvyn C. and Kapstein, Matthew T.: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, 1998. Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Mills, Martin A.: Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism, 2003. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stan R.: Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal, 1989. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
Ramble, Charles: The Navel of the Demoness. Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal, 2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recommended literature for further reading
Kapstein, Matthew: The Tibetans, 2006. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Bowie, Fiona.The Anthropology of Religion. 2000. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Lambek, Michael (ed.):A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2008, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Prebish, Charles S. og Damien Keown:Introducing Buddhism, 2006. Routledge: UK.
Samuel, Geoffrey: Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, 1993. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution 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).