The mists of Ramanna : the legend that was lower Burma /
Aung-Thwin, Michael,
The mists of Ramanna : the legend that was lower Burma / Michael A. Aung-Thwin. - 1 online resource (xi, 433 pages) : illustrations - Online access: University of Hawaii Press University of Hawaii Press Open Access Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-423) and index.
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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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 scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the ""Mon Paradigm, "" has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives
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2010.
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9780824828868
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2004029695
To 1824
Legends--Burma.
HISTORY--General.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
Historiography.
Legends.
Burma--History--To 1824.
Burma--Historiography.
Mon State (Burma)--History.
Burma.
Burma--Mon State.
History
HISTORY / General.
Electronic books.
History.
DS529.2 / .A86 2005
959.102
The mists of Ramanna : the legend that was lower Burma / Michael A. Aung-Thwin. - 1 online resource (xi, 433 pages) : illustrations - Online access: University of Hawaii Press University of Hawaii Press Open Access Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-423) and index.
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.
Use copy
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 scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the ""Mon Paradigm, "" has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Eng.
9780824874414 0824874412 0824828860 9780824828868
9780824828868
00027181 22573/ctt1wj77mk JSTOR 100427 Knowledge Unlatched
2004029695
To 1824
Legends--Burma.
HISTORY--General.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
Historiography.
Legends.
Burma--History--To 1824.
Burma--Historiography.
Mon State (Burma)--History.
Burma.
Burma--Mon State.
History
HISTORY / General.
Electronic books.
History.
DS529.2 / .A86 2005
959.102