The Mists of Ramanna : The Legend That Was Lower Burma

The Mists of Ramanna 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 sc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aung-Thwin, Michael (-)
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press 2005
2005.
Materias:
Legends > Burma.
Mon State (Burma) > History.
Burma > Historiography.
Burma > History > To 1824.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009436839306719
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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