Sekundärliteratur/Secondary literature

Niharranjan Ray, An Introduction to the Study of Theravāda Buddhism in Burma, Calcutta 1946, 247f.

Kamburupiṭiye Ariyasena Thera, Sīmāva hā ehi cetihāsika saṃvardhanaya piḷibanda tulanātmaka vimarśanayak. Sīmā: A Comparative Study of its Historical Development, unpublished PhD thesis, Peradeniya 1967, 393–415 (Sinhalese).

Kitisiri Malalgoda, Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750‒1900. A Study of Religious Revival and Change, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, 151‒161.

Jotiya Dhirasekera, Buddhist Monastic Discipline. A Study of its Origin and Development in Relation to the Sutta and Vinaya Piṭakas, Dehiwala: Buddhist Cultural Centre 1982 (repr. 2007), 330–333.

Petra Kieffer-Pülz, "A Legal Judgement Regarding a Sīmā Controversy: Ñeyyadhamma’s Sīmāvivādavinicchaya-kathā," Facets of Indian Culture. Gustav Roth Felicitation Volume, ed. C. P. Sinha, Patna 1998, 210‒218.

Anthony Lovenheim Irwin, “Imagining” Boundaries: Sīmā Space, Lineage Trails, and Trans-Regional Theravada Orthodoxy. MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011, 202 p. [https://uwmadison.app.box.com/s/6jucnnlejarsdywc2ztj] (last access 06.10.2016).

Nāgasena Bhikkhu, The monastic boundary (Sīmā) in Burmese Buddhism: Authority, Purity and Validity in Historical and Modern Contexts. PhD Thesis. Department of Religions. SOAS, University of London 2012 [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17369], 146–150 (3.5. Dispute literature and manuals).