TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aung-Thwin,Michael
TI  - The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend That Was Lower Burma 
SN  - 9780824874414
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
KW  - History / Asia / Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6d852277-d4d1-4722-b969-e06128c319bf
ER  -