The Mists of Ramanna : The Legend That Was Lower Burma /
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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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
2005.
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- 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.