The Mists of Rāmañña: The Legend That Was Lower Burma 9780824874414
Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower B
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English Pages 444 [448] Year 2017
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Pyü Millennium
3 Rämaññadesa, an Imagined Polity
4 Thatôn (Sudhuim), an Imagined Center
5 The Conquest of Thatôn, an Imagined Event
6 The Conquest of Thatôn as Allegory
7 The Mon Paradigm and the Origins of the Burma Script
8 The Place of Written Burmese and Mon in Burma’s Early History
9 The Mon Paradigm and the Evolution of the Pagán Temple
10 The Mon Paradigm and the Kyanzittha Legend
11 The Mon Paradigm and the Myth of the “Downtrodden Talaing”
12 Colonial Officials and Scholars
13 Without the Mon Paradigm
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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