The Mists of Rāmañña : The Legend That Was Lower Burma /

Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan-which then became, in essence, the new custodian and repository of Mon culture in the Upper Burmese interior. This...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aung-Thwin, Michael A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2017]
Temas:
To 1824
Legends > Burma.
Légendes > Birmanie.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Historiography
Legends
Mon State (Burma) > History.
Burma > Historiography.
Burma > History > To 1824.
Birmanie > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1824.
Burma
Burma > Mon State
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Pyü Millennium
  • 3 Rämaññadesa, an Imagined Polity
  • 4 Thatôn (Sudhuim), an Imagined Center
  • 5 The Conquest of Thatôn, an Imagined Event
  • 6 The Conquest of Thatôn as Allegory
  • 7 The Mon Paradigm and the Origins of the Burma Script
  • 8 The Place of Written Burmese and Mon in Burma's Early History
  • 9 The Mon Paradigm and the Evolution of the Pagán Temple
  • 10 The Mon Paradigm and the Kyanzittha Legend
  • 11 The Mon Paradigm and the Myth of the "Downtrodden Talaing"
  • 12 Colonial Officials and Scholars
  • 13 Without the Mon Paradigm
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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