Editing Sri Lanka (section)

== Literature in English ==

* Faleiro, Sonia (2025). ''The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia''. Columbia Global Reports. {{annotation|A journalistic survey of Buddhist nationalist militancy across Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand; its Sri Lankan material centers on the Bodu Bala Sena and the anti-Muslim violence at Aluthgama (2014) and Digana (2018) rather than on the RBP's left-wing definition of radical Buddhism, but useful for the nationalist-militancy context noted at the close of the section above.}}
* Grant, Patrick (2009). ''Buddhism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka''. State University of New York Press. {{annotation|A literary-critical reading of Dharmapāla, Walpola Rahula, and President J.R. Jayewardene as successive attempts to reconcile Buddhist self-representation with the modern ethnic conflict; its chapters on Dharmapāla and Rahula are the most relevant here.}}
* Seneviratne, H.L. (1999). ''The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka''. University of Chicago Press. {{annotation|An anthropological history of twentieth-century monastic activism centered on the Vidyālaṅkāra tradition, Walpola Rahula's ''The Heritage of the Bhikkhu'', and their transformation into the "new Buddhism" of later social-service and political monks. Essential background for the Vidyālaṅkāra group and for Saranankara.}}
* Harris, Ian, ed. (1999). ''Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia''. Cassell. {{annotation|Includes Tessa Bartholomeusz's chapter "First Among Equals: Buddhism and the Sri Lankan State" (pp. 173–193), a concise survey of Buddhism's constitutional and political role in independent Sri Lanka.}}
* Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja (1992). ''Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka''. University of Chicago Press. {{annotation|The fullest scholarly account of the entanglement of Buddhism with Sinhala nationalism, party politics, and ethnic violence from the 1940s through the 1980s; contains the most detailed available discussion of the Vidyālaṅkāra monks, Udakandawela Saranankara, and Don Charles Wijewardena.}}
* Jayawardena, Kumari (1979). "Bhikkus in Revolt". Four-part series. ''Lanka Guardian'' 2.2 (15 May): 16–18; 2.4 (15 June): 13–14; 2.5 (1 July): 10–11; 2.6 (15 July): 7–9. {{annotation|The foundational account of the labor movement's Buddhist sympathizers and of Udakandawela Siri Saranankara's career in particular, drawn in part directly on his own autobiography; nearly all subsequent English-language writing on Saranankara, including Tambiah (1992) and Pieris (2020), derives from this series. See the dedicated biography page for detailed use.}}