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dc.contributor.authorAung-Thwin, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-13 03:00:31
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:45:45Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-22 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-13 03:00:31
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:45:45Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:45:45Z
dc.date.issued2005-01-01
dc.identifier625896
dc.identifierOCN: 607644792en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31683
dc.description.abstractScholars 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherAniruddha
dc.subject.otherBago
dc.subject.otherMyanmar
dc.subject.otherBamar people
dc.subject.otherKyansittha
dc.subject.otherLower Myanmar
dc.subject.otherMon language
dc.subject.otherMon people
dc.subject.otherMyanmar
dc.titleThe Mists of Ramanna
dc.title.alternativeThe Legend That Was Lower Burma
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_625896
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy3fe12fec-6f5e-4c52-b268-b65ab05c85d3
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780824874414
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.grant.number100427
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2016 Backlist Collection
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Aniruddha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniruddha; Bago, Myanmar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bago,_Myanmar; Bamar people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamar_people; Kyansittha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyansittha; Lower Myanmar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Myanmar; Mon language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_language; Mon people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_people; Myanmar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar
oapen.identifier.isbn9780824874414
grantor.number100427
oapen.identifier.ocn607644792


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