ISBN:
9780824874414
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 433 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
Series Statement:
History
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend That Was Lower Burma
Keywords:
Historiography
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Legende
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Legends
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Legends
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Electronic books
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Birma
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Legende
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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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