TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aung-Thwin,Michael
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Mists of Ramanna : : The Legend That Was Lower Burma / 
SN  - 9780824874414
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
KW  - Legends
KW  - fast
KW  - Historiography
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Legendes
KW  - Birmanie
KW  - Burma
KW  - Mon State
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1824
KW  - Mon State (Burma)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1824
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64042/
ER  -