Summary Was Bagan: “the metropolis of Buddhism in Indo-China”? The citation is from the report of Charles Duroiselle in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1924-1925, Burma Circle: “As is well known, Pagan, once the metropolis of Buddhism in Indo-China, is now the greatest place of attraction in Burma from an archaeological … Read more
Summary Preface From 18th to 21st December 2012, the SEAMEO Centre for History and Tradition -SEAMEO CHAT- conducted a Seminar: Cultural Traditions of Myanmar which was attended by 279 participants from academic staff and post graduate students from universities in Yangon area. This book is a collection of the eleven research papers presented at the … Read more
Summary Preface The SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition (SEAMEO CHAT) in its 14 years after inauguration in December 2000 has been able to publish Traditional Festivals of Southeast Asia, Volume I, which is the collection of the research papers on the traditional festivals of Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is one of … Read more
Summary In may 2001, the SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto Universities came together to launch a research project, “Historical Development of Rural Societies and Villagers’ Livelihood in Myanmar”. The aim of the project was to study the changes that had been going on in … Read more
Summary In this paper, I would like to define Myanmar traditional texts very broadly as the corpus o writing produced by Myanmar scholars before the colonial period. This corpus is a large and diverse one and I am certain that I shall be doing less than justice to my subject. Nevertheless, I would like to … Read more
Summary Commemorating The Tenth Anniversary of SEAMEO CHAT Traditions 2010 BY SEAMEO CHAT | WEDNESDAY, 01-DECEMBER-2010 Commemorating The Tenth Anniversary of SEAMEO CHAT[doc id=676] View PDF File
Summary This is a translation of a work translated from Mon language to Myanmar which its translator refers to in the concluding part of his translation as the “Mon Chronicle”. The translation of a translation appears to be odd, but it is attempted here for the Mon original does not seem to have survived and … Read more
Summary Preface The Meeting on Legal Traditions of Southeast Asia was conducted at SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition on 7 November 2002. Five researchers from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philipphines, Thailand, and Vietnam attended the Meeting and participated in this project agreed to prepare research papers detailing the development over time of customary law in … Read more
Summary Commemorating The Fifth Anniversarry of SEAMEO CHAT Traditions 2005 BY SEAMEO CHAT | THURSDAY, 01-DECEMBER-2005Commemorating The Fifth Anniversarry of SEAMEO CHAT[doc id=668] View PDF File
Summary In 1829 Bagyidaw (1819-1838), seventh king of the Konbaung dynasty, appointed a Royal Commision of learned monks, laymen and brahmins to revise the existing chronicles and to compile a new one. Although earliest extant Myanmar chronicle dated back to the early 16th century this was the first time ever that a Royal Commision was … Read more