Editing Laos (section)

== Literature in English ==

* Liu, Yumeng (2025). "Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics". ''Monthly Review'' 76.11. {{annotation|A recent survey, from a sympathetic Marxist perspective, of the accommodation between Buddhism and socialism in economic policy, education, ecology, and diplomacy since 1975.}}
* Ladwig, Patrice, & Martin Rathie (2020). "Lao Buddhism and Faith in the Revolution: The Life and Career of Maha Khamtan Thepbuali (1919–2019) in the Context of Buddhist Socialist Movements". ''Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient'' 106: 403–431. {{annotation|The most detailed English-language biographical study of Khamtan Thepbuali, situating him within a comparative regional pattern of Buddhist socialist movements.}}
* Gutter, Peter (2020). "Laos: Symbiosis of Communist Politics and Buddhist Culture?". In: Marques-Morgado, Paulo, & Pieter Boele van Hensbroek (Eds), ''Essays in Development Studies'': 67–77. University of Groningen. {{annotation|A short, accessible essay drawing on the author's residence in Laos to examine the coexistence of Buddhist and communist iconography, including the national emblem.}}
* Ladwig, Patrice (2014). "Millennialism, Charisma and Utopia: Revolutionary Potentialities in Pre-modern Lao and Thai Theravāda Buddhism". ''Politics, Religion & Ideology'' 15.2: 308–329. {{annotation|A theoretically ambitious study of the 1901–1902 phu mi bun rebellions and related millenarian movements, situating them as an earlier, pre-Marxist source of revolutionary potential within Lao-Buddhist cosmology.}}
* Holt, John Clifford (2009). ''Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture''. University of Hawaii Press. {{annotation|A wide-ranging ethnographic and historical study; chapter 3 offers a sustained, critical reassessment of Pathet Lao religious policy after 1975.}}
* Stuart-Fox, Martin (1999). "Laos: From Buddhist Kingdom to Marxist State". In: Harris, Ian (Ed.), ''Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia'': 153–172. Continuum. {{annotation|A concise overview by the leading Anglophone historian of modern Laos, summarizing the LPRP's shifting religious policy across the 1970s–1990s.}}
* Evans, Grant (1998). ''The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975''. University of Hawaii Press. {{annotation|An anthropological study of ritual and memory politics that documents the post-1979 resurgence of Buddhist public practice.}}
* Stuart-Fox, Martin (1996). ''Buddhist Kingdom, Marxist State: The Making of Modern Laos''. White Lotus. {{annotation|The standard monograph-length treatment of the encounter between the traditional Lao-Buddhist polity and Marxist state-building.}}
* Stuart-Fox, Martin (1983). "Marxism and Theravada Buddhism: The Legitimation of Political Authority in Laos". ''Pacific Affairs'' 56.3: 428–454. {{annotation|A structural comparison of the traditional Lao-Buddhist and Marxist-Leninist systems of political legitimation, foundational for later scholarship.}}
* Stuart-Fox, Martin, & Rod Bucknell (1982). "Politicization of the Buddhist Sangha in Laos". ''Journal of Southeast Asian Studies'' 13.1: 60–80. {{annotation|A detailed account of the 1975–1979 reorganization of the Sangha under party control, drawing on contemporary interviews and refugee testimony.}}