Editing Burma (section)

== Literature in English ==

* Su, Khine Thant (2022). "Buddhist Socialism and National Identity in Colonial and Postwar Burma: An Analysis of U Nu's Political Thought". In: Galway, Matthew, & Marc H. Opper (Eds), ''Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia'': 107–136. ANU Press. {{annotation|Open-access chapter tracing the evolution of U Nu's discourse on morality and Buddhist socialism from his engagement with the Nagani Book Club in the 1930s through his final break with Marxism in 1958, situating him within the global Cold War context.}}
* Crosby, Kate, & Janaka Ashin (2016). "All too human: the impact of international Buddhist networks on the life and posthumous conviction of the Burmese nationalist monk, Shin Ukkaṭṭha (1897–1978)". ''Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions'' 3.1: 219–235. {{annotation|The principal scholarly study of Shin Ukkaṭṭha, tracing the influence of international Buddhist and theosophical networks on his radical modernist reinterpretation of Buddhism, his nationalist and educational activities, and his posthumous conviction for heresy by the State Saṅghamahānāyaka Committee.}}
* Ashin, Janaka (2016). ''Die-Human, Born Human: The Life and Posthumous Trial of Shin Ukkaṭṭha, a Pioneering Burmese Monk during a Tumultuous Period in a Nation's History''. PhD thesis, King's College London. {{annotation|The principal biographical and intellectual study of Shin Ukkaṭṭha. The thesis examines his life, Buddhist teachings, relationship to international Buddhist networks, anti-colonial and social activities, and posthumous prosecution by the State Saṅgha Mahānāyaka Committee. It is particularly important for understanding Ukkaṭṭha's reinterpretation of rebirth, his radical critique of Burmese Buddhist orthodoxy, and his connections with secular education, anti-capitalism, socialism, and communism.}}
* Frasch, Tilman (2013). "The Relic and the Rule of Righteousness: Reflections on U Nu's Dhammavijaya". In: Whalen-Bridge, John, & Pattana Kitiarsa (Eds), ''Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement'': 115–138. Palgrave Macmillan. {{annotation|A critical reassessment of U Nu's political use of Buddha relics between 1949 and 1957, arguing that his practice of dhammavijaya was a colonial-era innovation rather than a straightforward revival of precolonial kingship.}}
* Seekins, Donald M. (2013). "Sacred Site or Public Space? The Shwedagon Pagoda in Colonial Rangoon". In: Whalen-Bridge, John, & Pattana Kitiarsa (Eds), ''Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement'': 139–162. Palgrave Macmillan. {{annotation|Traces how Rangoon's Shwedagon Pagoda evolved under colonial rule from a purely sacred site into a public space for nationalist mobilization, including the early twentieth-century "shoe controversy."}}
* Matthews, Bruce (1999). "The Legacy of Tradition and Authority: Buddhism and the Nation in Myanmar". In: Harris, Ian (Ed.), ''Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia'': 26–53. Continuum. {{annotation|A broad survey running from the colonial era through the 1988 uprising and the 1990s, particularly valuable for its detailed treatment of the sangha's political role under the Ne Win and SLORC/SPDC military governments.}}
* Sarkisyanz, Manuel (1965). ''Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution''. Martinus Nijhoff. {{annotation|The foundational, exhaustively documented study of Buddhist political ideas in Burma from the Pagan dynasty to U Nu's government; despite its age, its chapters on millenarian revolt, the Nagani Book Club, and Buddhist-Marxist syncretism remain the fullest documentary source for radical Burmese Buddhism.}}
* Butwell, Richard (1963). ''U Nu of Burma''. Stanford University Press. {{annotation|The standard political biography of U Nu, offering the fullest documented account of the AFPFL leadership, including detailed treatment of U Ba Swe's career, the 1958 party split, and the internal dynamics behind Burma's Buddhist-socialist government.}}
* Sarkisyanz, Manuel (1961). "On the Place of U Nu's Buddhist Socialism in Burma's History of Ideas". ''Studies on Asia'' 2.1: 53–62. {{annotation|A concise article-length precursor to Sarkisyanz's 1965 monograph, arguing that U Nu's Buddhist socialism was a modernized expression of an indigenous Ashokan ideal of kingship rather than a purely pragmatic postwar improvisation.}}
* Totten, George O. (1960). "Buddhism and Socialism in Japan and Burma". ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 2.3: 293–304. {{annotation|An early comparative treatment asking why Buddhism became central to Burmese socialism while remaining marginal to the Japanese socialist movement; includes primary-source quotations from U Ba Swe on the compatibility of Marxism and Buddhism.}}
* Trager, Frank N. (1959). "Political Divorce in Burma". ''Foreign Affairs'' 37.2: 317–327. {{annotation|A contemporary journalistic-scholarly account of the 1958 AFPFL split, useful for its explicit identification of Ba Swe's disagreement with U Nu over the compatibility of Marxism and Buddhism as one strand of the conflict.}}