Publications

Houtman, G. (forthcoming) Loka as the realm of reference in Burmese political rhetoric. In Fluegel, P. and Houtman, G. (eds) Asceticism in South and Southeast Asia.

Spiritual and familial continuities in Burma’s ‘secular’ politics. Buddhist approach to political conflict and peace development. UNDV Conference volume, The International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak Celebrations, Bangkok, 4-6 May 2009, pp 27-41.

Aung San’s lan-zin, the Blue Print and the Japanese occupation of Burma. Chapter 8 in Kei Nemoto (Ed). Reconsidering the Japanese military occupation in Burma (1942-45). Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp 179-224. This includes an English-Burmese bibliograpy of Aung San’s communications (pp 213-224).

Sacralizing or demonizing democracy? Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘personality cult’. In Monique Skidmore (ed) Burma at the turn of the 21st century. University of Hawaii Press, 2005, pp 133-53.

Entries on Burma in The Encyclopaedia of Modern Asia. Berkshire Publishing, 2002

Human origins in Burma: palaeontology, museums, pagoda heritage conservation - and other myanmafication methods - for containing freethinking citizens. Pekhon University Press 2739, 2000, 28 pp.

’Why I believe academics should be wary of dealing with repressive regimes.’ Times Higher Educational Supplement, 1 December 2000, p 18..

Review of the the conference The Democracy Movement in Burma since 1962. Högberga Gård, Stockholm, 25-26 September 1999. IIAS Newsletter, 21 February 2000, p 22.

The creation of Myanmar and human origins. Anthropology Today, Vol. 15, No. 4, August 1999, pp 13-19.

Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy. Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series No. 33. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999, 400 pp. (see also reviews and references).

‘Beyond the cradle and past the grave: the biography of Burmese meditation master U Ba Khin’ (PDF, 3 Megabytes - be patient, as it takes some time to download) In Juliane Schober (ed.), Buddhist sacred biography in South and Southeast Asia. Universityof Hawai’i Press, 1997, pp 310-44.

‘Burma or Myanmar?: The cucumber and the circle. International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter No 12, Spring 1997, pp 20-21. Burma Studies Group Colloquium, Northern Illinois University, 25-27 October 1996.

Review of the Burma Studies Group Colloquium, Northern Illinois University, 25-27 October 1996. International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter, No. 12, Spring 1997, p 24

‘Meditation and language’ (1,000-word entry). In Religion and language (ed. J.F.E. Sawyer). Part of The encyclopaedia of language and linguistics (ed. R.E. Asher). Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993.

‘Between ruler and contemplator: insight contemplation in colonial and postcolonial Burma’. In Proceedings of the Conference on Religious renewals in Asia (ed. Shihegaru Tanabe), National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 24-27 Nov 1992. (published in 1995 in Japanese).

‘Traditions of Buddhist practice in Burma’. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. PhD Thesis, 1990, pp 378 (unpublished).

How a foreigner invented Buddhendom in Burmese: from tha-tha-na to bok-da' ba-tha.'(PDF, 1.5 Megabytes - be patient, as it takes some time to download) Journal of the Anthropological Society at Oxford (JASO). Vol. XXI/2, Trinity 1990, pp 113-128.

‘The Burmese wipathana meditation tradition self-conscious: a history of sleeping texts and silent Buddhas’. Groniek (special issue on South Asia), no. 92, Jul 1985.

‘The novitiation ceremony in Theravada Buddhist Burma: a “received” and an “interpreted” version’. Journal of South Asia Research, May 1984.

Burmese personal names: a critical survey of choice, types and some functions of names. Rangoon: Department of Religious Affairs, 1982, p. 89.

2,500 words on 38 Buddhist keywords in Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia (8-volume thematic encyclopaedia). Ed. Richard Hoggart