Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part VII

Factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part VII
Ava and Pegu (c. 1364–1555)
After the collapse of Pagan authority, Burma was divided. A Burman Ava Dynasty (1364–527) was eventually established at the city of Ava by 1364.
Pagan culture was revived and a great age of Burmese literature ensued.
The kingdom lacked easily defendable borders, however, and [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part VI

Factors that influenced  
the evolution of Burma Part VI
 
Pagan Kingdom
During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the Bamar, people of the Burmese ethnic group, began infiltrating from the area to the north into the central region of Burma which was occupied by Pyu people that had come under the influence of [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part V

Factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part V
Mon
Early History of Burma_
Humans lived in the region that is now Burma as early as 11,000 years ago, but the first identifiable civilisation is that of the Pyu although both Burman and Mon tradition claim that the fabled Suvarnabhumi mentioned in ancient Pali and Sanskrit texts was a [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part IV

Factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part IV
Pyu
Pyu, one of the three founding father of Bamar or Myanmar race was believed to be the mixture of three groups;
(i) Few insignificant local inhabitants since Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age,
(ii) many migrants came from India bringing in Hinduism and Buddhism along with their cultures and [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part III

 Factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part III
 Settlements of Indian Migrants in Ancient Burma
Orissa
Orissa, Indian Buddhist colonists, arrived lower Burma, settled and built pagodas since 500 BC.
Andhra Dynasty
Hindu colonists, of Andhra Dynasty, from middle India (180 BC) established Hanthawaddy (Mon town) and Syriam (Ta Nyin or Than Lyin) in Burma.
Talaings or Mons
Mons or Talaings, an [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part II

 
    

 

Factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part II
 
2. History of Burma
The History of Burma (or Myanmar) is long and complex. Several races of people have lived in the region, the oldest of which are probably the Mon or the Pyu. In the 9th century the Bamar (Burman) people migrated from the then China-Tibet border region [...]

Basic factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part I

Basic factors that influenced
the evolution of Burma Part I
1. Geographical factor 
Burma: “The highway between India and China” India and China are the world’s biggest and ancient cradle of civilizations. High, snow peaked, rough and steep Himalaya mountain ranges block the direct interaction or travelling between the two of them except for the virtual highway [...]

Burma’s Saffron Revolution leader, Revered Monk, Sayadaw (abbot) U Gambira

Burma’s Saffron Revolution leader
Revered Monk, Sayadaw (abbot)
U Gambira
Dr San Oo Aung 

Sayadaw (abbot) U Gambira,  is a prominent Buddhist clergy, who took a leading role in the August and September peoples’ protest in Burma.
In August 2007, SPDC announces the sudden increase in fuel prices. That cause a devastating effect of Burmese people as especially [...]

To win the Hearts and Minds of the people of Burma

To win the Hearts and Minds
of the people of Burma 

Surely there must be a_
 “How-to-Govern” manual somewhere that says:
‘Thou Shalt Not Martyr Thy Opponents
Unless Thou Really Is Not Interested in
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Thy People’.
Marina Mahathir

Actually I just want to write two shot commentaries after reading Burma Digest but [...]

To rebuild our beloved Burma on Moral High Grounds

To rebuild our beloved Burma
on Moral High Grounds
 
Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the up most round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
Shakespeare’s – Julius Caesar II.i.22.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Success [...]

Say Young Sone Anyein, video 1 to 6

Say Young Sone Anyein,
video 1 to 6
You Tube Video source through Niknayman’s blog ( thank you Ko Niknayman for the videos)

We like to praise the courage of the Comedians after watching the Jokes of the Anyein performance , which is usually combined with the traditional dance with the jokes.
  [...]

Our Islamic roots in China

  Our Islamic roots in China

We hereby want to mention the propagation of Islam in China.
Facts taken and summarized from_
1. “The Root of Islam in China”  by Haji Kahar Hoh Kok Hoong, from the article in Islamic Herald, PERKIM.
2. And Wikipedia China and Islam articles.
3. My article, Panthay Muslims or Myanmar Chinese  Muslims
In China [...]

UNSG’s INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY MESSAGE

 
14 December 2007

Secretary-General
SG/SM/11335
OBV/677

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL,
IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE, STRESSES
migrants should not be seen as burden
but assets to society

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Migrants Day, observed 18 December:

Today marks the eighth International Migrants Day, an occasion that grows more meaningful with each [...]

‘Pumpkin positive’ Tatmadaw and SPDC Generals

  ‘Pumpkin positive’
Tatmadaw and SPDC Generals
While reading the AFP news from Paris, I unexpectedly visualized that our beloved SPDC generals  are suffering almost all the diseases mentioned.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported that Dr Paul Keeley, a consultant in the department of palliative medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland wrote to the weekly [...]