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oapen-20.500.12657-316832021-11-09T09:03:17Z The Mists of Ramanna Aung-Thwin, Michael A. History History Aniruddha Bago Myanmar Bamar people Kyansittha Lower Myanmar Mon language Mon people Myanmar 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. 2020-03-13 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:45:45Z 2017-03-22 23:55 2020-03-13 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:45:45Z 2020-04-01T13:45:45Z 2005-01-01 book 625896 OCN: 607644792 9780824874414 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31683 eng application/pdf n/a 625896.pdf University of Hawai'i Press 10.26530/oapen_625896 100427 10.26530/oapen_625896 3fe12fec-6f5e-4c52-b268-b65ab05c85d3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780824874414 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100427 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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