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Myanmar also known as the
land of pagoda
or Golden Myanmar has a long and very complex
history.
Myanmar history is centered
around Yangon, Mandalay,
Bagan and some other
ancient cities along the
Ayeyarwady
River or
Irrawaddy River.
Yangon or
Rangoon the former capital
is the main city in Myanmar,
but not the capital anymore.
The new capital is
Naypyidaw,
Mandalay in central
Myanmar
is the second biggest city
in the country and known as
a cultural and religious
hotspot.
Bagan the
old capital under King Anawrahta was the main Myanmar or
Burmese city
between
(1044 to 1286 A.D.).
Buddhism
is the primary religion in
the country,
there also are animistic
ideas centered around the
Nats, this are Myanmar
ghosts since ancient times.
Golden
Myanmar as
a country is dedicated
to
Buddhism and has lots of
variations due to the
topography and is one of the
great travel destination on
planet earth. From the snow
peaks of the Myanmar
Himalayas through the
tempered climate of the Shan
plateau. The jungle in the
hills of Myanmar and the dry
zone in central Myanmar
around Myanmar Bagan and
Myanmar Mandalay.
The
tropical
islands in the
Andaman Sea with the
sea gypsies and a great
underwater world, ideal for
scuba diving. Plus myriads
of pristine beaches on
Myanmar mainland and
islands
wait for the traveler on his
exotic Myanmar tour.
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Several
Myanmar Airlines
such as Yangon
Air serve golden Myanmar
domestic, Myanmar Airlines
International, Air Bagan and
other serve the
international and domestic
Myanmar air traffic. The main
domestic airline is the
state owned Myanmar airlines
The
Buddhist
culture of old Burma, was
originally a product of the vast
river basin of the
Ayeyarwady
or Irrawaddy river,
with an extension
south-eastwards along the coast
to the delta of the Salween
river.
All the venerable city sites
where major
Myanmar
art was produced
belong to this lowland region.
It is not particularly
surprising; since even now the
higher ground is clothed in
dense rain-forest, and has been
inhabited for many centuries by
people whose folk-religion
demanded no expression in stone,
bronze or fired clay ' the only
materials likely to survive for
long in the wet monsoon climate.
Buddhism
of the Theravada or Hinayana
branch was established as
the dominant religion in AD 1056, under the
king who unified the country,
Anawrahta of
Bagan.
If you travel to Myanmar there
is no way around to have a
excellent travel insurance like
this is not because of any
particular problem.
Myanmars are more civilized than
Swiss e.g. because Swiss let you
die in the trench if you wont
give money first. But if you
have a health problem due to a
accident or whatever which is
not under your control the
environment might be not as you
expected and in Myanmar cash is
requested.
This
event represents a historical
dateline in relation to which
the whole of early
Myanmar
history is most
easily understood. But Anawrahta
was setting up his state
religion as a unifying force in
opposition to earlier forms of
Buddhism and so-called `nature
religion', or
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Nats |
believing in Nats. which had
their own history behind them,
and had probably produced an art
oft their own. So
deeply entrenched were these
earlier forms of religion that
they were never in fact taken
off from the minds of the
Myanmar, but only modified and
slightly adapted to fit the
religious patterns of Theravada
Buddhism. Its great strength is
that it can fit itself very
easily into almost any social
and cultural framework, without
losing its identity and without
demanding of its followers a
culturally damaging renunciation
of their own customs. Thus
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works of art
are found based on popular
non-Buddhist religious themes of
considerable antiquity, even in
the art
of later
times. And
many Myanmar of the present day
are as devoted to the worship of
the Nats to astrology and even
to alchemy, as they are to the
doctrines of the Buddha.
All this
shows a rich Myanmar culture
heritage and this
is still the same today by any
means its must Buddhism
oriented,
more.
Burma lies close to India,
and during the early Middle Age
India was a land of enterprise,
sending out her merchants and
colonists to many parts of
Southeast Asia. Myanmar received
his own groups of Indian
settlers at that time and later
pushed by the British
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Brahmin astrologers are know to
have been in the service of
medieval kings in bothProme and
Bagan. And although Hindu images
dating from the sixth to tenth
centuries AD have been found,
Hinduism never establish itself
firmly in Myanmar. Various
Indian forms of Buddhism
however, did. The principal
opponents of Anawrahta's introduction of Theravada
Buddhism were a religious order
know to history as the Ari. They
were probably monks of Mahayana |
Prome or
Pyu |
sects, for at
Prome
and at Bagan a number of images
of Mahayana `deities' have been
excavated. The astrology
is of Indian type too, so
altogether it seems that the
influence of. Indian culture has
always' been strong, mainly in
its
Buddhist manifestations.
It
is probable that the social
structure implicit Hindu theory
helped to make it unacceptable
to the tribally orientated
peoples of Myanmar. The earliest
concrete evidence of the
presence of |
Tribally
orientated
Myanmar people |
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Indian influence on
Myanmar soil are the
fragments of Pali
Buddhist canonical texts
found at Old Prome dating
to about AD 500. |
Chin and
tattooed |
Documentation of the
early history
is scant. Much of
Myanmar history is fanciful,
for genuine history was
not a Burmese forte.
Chinese
sources refer to wild,
tattooed and cannibal
tribes -see
Chin-
using bows and arrows.
Ptolemy's Geographica
identifies a coastline,
possibly around Moulmein,
where cannibals lived.
To the
seventh, eighth and
ninth centuries AD
probably belong
inscriptions from Prome
and Old Prome which
refer to |
Buddha
with inscription at
Prome or Pyu |
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kings
with Indian names, some
of whom may have been
connected with the Pallava
kings of south-east
India. It seems, however
that
before Anawrahta's
unification of
the kingdom two
principal
population
groups divided
the country
between them. |
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and center the lower
Ayeyarwady or
Irrawaddy valley,
and along the
coast, the
western Mon
people lived.
They were close
relatives of the
Eastern Mon, who
produced a
wealth of art in
Thailand and
Cambodia, and
spoke a language
of their own.
The Western Mon
produced fine
art too, most of
it with Theravada
Buddhism motives. In the
upper Irrawaddy
valley the Pyu
people were at
first dominant.
They spoke a
Tibeto - Burman
language, and
were mainly
Buddhists of one
kind or another
' though Hindu
deities were
known among
them. They were
recorded |
Ayeyarwady or
Irrawaddy river
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by the
Chinese,
whose
Tang
dynasty
history
gives a
description
of an
eighth-century Pyu city. It was
160 li (about
54 miles) in
circumference,
walled and
moated,
containing more
than a hundred
Buddhist
monasteries
lavishly adorned
with colors,
silver and gold.
When the
northern Pyu
capital was
captured and the
people enslaved
by a neighboring
kingdom in Yunnan,
the way
was left
open for
the
infiltration
from the
Chinese-Tibetan |
Buddhist
Monasteries
at Bago |
border-country
of the
Myanmar
people.
They
intermingled
with and came to
dominate the Pyu
and Mon, being
converted by
them to
Buddhism. It
seems that by
about AD 1000
the process of
conversion had
already begun,
for then a
Myanmar
ruler of Bagan
endowed the
foundation of a
Buddhist
ordination hall. |
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