Editing Nepal (section)

== Literature in English ==

* Torri, Davide (2019). "Religious Identities and the Struggle for Secularism: The Revival of Buddhism and Religions of Marginalized Groups in Nepal". ''Entangled Religions'' 8. {{annotation|An open-access study of Nepal's secularism campaign, Janajati identity politics, and the Buddhist revival after 1990. It deliberately excludes Dalits.}}
* Gellner, David N., Sondra L. Hausner, & Chiara Letizia (Eds.) (2016). ''Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal''. Oxford University Press. {{annotation|A collection that includes Letizia's chapter on ideas of secularism and Brigitte Steinmann's study of confrontations between Maoists and Buddhists, the only source consulted that pairs Buddhism with Maoist politics.}}
* Chudal, Alaka Atreya (2015). "Rahul Sankrityayan and the Buddhism of Nepal". ''European Bulletin of Himalayan Research'' 46: 62–87. {{annotation|An open-access account of Sankrityayan's journeys through Nepal and his ties to Newar Buddhists, which also reconstructs the Rana-era suppression of Newari-language Buddhist writing.}}
* Letizia, Chiara (2014). "Buddhist Activism, New Sanghas, and the Politics of Belonging among Some Tharu and Magar Communities of Southern Nepal". In: Toffin, Gérard, & Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds.), ''Facing Globalization in the Himalayas'': 286–322. Sage. {{annotation|The fullest account of how Janajati activists adopted Buddhism after 1990, including its legal frame and the campaign for a secular constitution.}}
* LeVine, Sarah, & David N. Gellner (2005). ''Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal''. Harvard University Press. {{annotation|The standard history of the Theravada movement, covering the Rana-era repression, the exiles of 1944, the Dharmodaya Sabha, and the later movement's social activism, with a "Dramatis Personae" appendix; it contains little on Marxism or Dalits.}}
* Bechert, Heinz, & Jens-Uwe Hartmann (1988). "Observations on the Reform of Buddhism in Nepal". ''Journal of the Nepal Research Centre'' 8: 1–30. {{annotation|A mid-1980s survey of the Newar Buddhist caste structure and of the Theravada movement's modernism and treatment of caste.}}
* Kloppenborg, Ria (1977). "Theravada Buddhism in Nepal". ''Kailash'' 5(4): 301–321. {{annotation|The earliest scholarly account of the Theravada movement's institutions and of the Kathmandu conference of 1956.}}