Was Bagan: “the metropolis of Buddhism in Indo-China”?

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

Cultural Traditions

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

Traditional Festivals of Southeast Asia (Volume I)

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

Change of Rural Society and Local Agro-ecological Knowledge in Myanmar

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

Texts and Images: Glimpses Of Myanmar History

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

Traditions 2010

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