TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aung-Thwin, Michael A.
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_625896
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625896
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 607644792
KW  - History
KW  - History
KW  - Aniruddha
KW  - Bago
KW  - Myanmar
KW  - Bamar people
KW  - Kyansittha
KW  - Lower Myanmar
KW  - Mon language
KW  - Mon people
KW  - Myanmar
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9dd4fd61-a2fa-4188-b86c-c1f7d77b1d8e/625896.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31683
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
PY  - 2005-01-01
SN  - 9780824874414
TI  - The Mists of Ramanna : The Legend That Was Lower Burma
ER  - 
