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

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Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Ramannadesa, 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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aung-Thwin, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Legends.
Historiography.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
HISTORY > General.
Legendes > Birmanie.
Legends > Burma.
Burma > Mon State.
Burma.
Birmanie > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1824.
Mon State (Burma) > History.
Burma > Historiography.
Burma > History > To 1824.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Py millennium
  • Rmaññadesa : an imagined polity
  • Thatôn (Sudhuim) : an imagined center
  • The conquest of Thatôn : an imagined event
  • The conquest of Thatôn as allegory
  • The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script
  • The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history
  • The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Pagán temple
  • The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend
  • The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "down-trodden Talaing"
  • Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm.

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