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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1. autor: Aung-Thwin, Michael
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
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Spis treści:
  • 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.