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 -