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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Aung-Thwin, Michael
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2005.
Collection:Online access: University of Hawaii Press University of Hawaii Press Open Access Books.
Sujets:
To 1824
Legends > Burma.
Légendes > Birmanie.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Historiography.
Legends.
Burma > History > To 1824.
Burma > Historiography.
Mon State (Burma) > History.
Birmanie > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1824.
Burma.
Burma > Mon State.
History
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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