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The Mahamuni Buddha : When the Spirit Moves
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Category: Arakan Historical Seminar
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Written by Kaladan News
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Published: 06 August 2007
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1. [slides] Mahamuni Buddha & Map
The removal of the Mahamuni to Upper Burma has symbolized the subjugation of Arakan, from its annexation in 1784 until the present. If the seizure of the Mahamuni represented a tragedy for some, for others it came to represent the jewel in an eversparkling but tottering crown. How this image from outside Burma's traditional borders attained its immediate and lasting prominence reveals much about how Burma has incorporated religious myths and sacred objects from outside its traditional borders.The changing nature of the seventeenth century slave trade in Arakan and Eastern Bengal
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Category: Arakan Historical Seminar
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Written by Kaladan News
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Published: 06 August 2007
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Stephan van Galen
Introduction
When during the first half of the fifteenth century the Venetian merchant Nicolo di Conti travelled from Bengal to Burma he most probably passed through the Arakanese capital Mrauk-U. At that time Mrauk-U apparently did not stand out amongst the many cities and countries he visited. Nicolo di Conti at least did not have much to report about Arakan. The most that he found could be said of the Arakanese capital that it lay on the bank of a river and that it was surrounded by a tract of uninhabited mountains. For Nicolo di Conti the city of Arakan was just another harbour en route to his next destination, the magnificent city of Ava.1
Power and Religion in the early Arakanese Kingdoms of Dhanyawadi and Vesali
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Category: Arakan Historical Seminar
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Written by Kaladan News
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Published: 08 July 2007
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Pamela Gutman
Department of Art History and Theory, The University of Sydney
Abstract
This paper seeks to examine the nature of power and religion in the early urban centres of Arakan, Dhanyawadi and Vesali, in the light of the Anandacandra inscription, the early coins and the sculptural remains.
Alaol's poetry as a source for Arakanese history
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Category: Arakan Historical Seminar
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Written by Kaladan News
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Published: 15 July 2007
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Thibaut d'Hubert
Abstract
During the XVIIth century, a Bengali poetical tradition emerged in the kingdom of Arakan. The main figure of this tradition is the court poet Ãlãol(?1607-1680) who composed adaptations into Bengali of texts originally written in medieval Hindi (Avadhi) or Persian. As far as now, six poems are known to be his compositions.
Buddhism in Arakan:Theories and Historiography of the Religious Basis of Ethnonyms
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Category: Arakan Historical Seminar
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Written by Kaladan News
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Published: 08 July 2007
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Michael W. Charney
School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS], University of London
Interest in Rakhaing (Arakan), has resurged after a considerable period in which few studies appeared outside ofMyanmar (Burma).1 This newly found interest, at least newly found in terms of foreign scholars, is indicated in the numerous studies which have appeared since the early 1990s and in the holding of the present workshop. One frequently discussed topic that has not yet yielded a satisfactory conclusion, is the association between religious identity and local ethnonyms, which is the subject of the present paper.