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Myanmar history, Myanmar, Burma
history, archeology, ancient places,
ancient kings, Buddha, gautama,
British colonial times, Myanmar
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Brief Myanmar Burma history
The History of Myanmar /
Burma - ancient history- according to the ancient
chronicles, begins with the founding of Tagaung city in
the upper reaches of the
Ayeyarwady in about 850 B.C.
The time is so early (Rome was then not yet
built) that western historians would not take
the statement.
But the Myanmar /
Burma chronicles say
that the founder of this earliest
Myanmar
dynasty was a king of the Sakyan tribe from the
Himalayas, who came looking for a quiet and peaceful
land.
His dynasty of 50 kings ruled Tagaung for about
400 years and they were often harassed by some wandering
tribes from China.
The Myanmar history chronicles also indicate that at the
time there were early settlers in the land, namely
Pyus,
Kanyans, and Theks in Central Myanmar,
Shan, on the
eastern plateau,
Rakhines on the western coastal strip,
and
Mons in the delta and along the southern coastal
strip.
There were also many mountain tribes, the
forefathers of Kachin, Karen and Kayah,
Mons, Rakhines and
Shans were powerful groups who had
founded contemporary states with their own dynasties and
chronicles.
Myanmar
history is closely connected to the
Ayeyarwady
valley.
After the fall of Tagaung
Myanmar history data indicate a long dynasty of Pyu
kings in about 484 B.C.
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Their main city was Tharekittaya (now
Pyi, or Prome
in British period.) This Pyu dynasty had 27 kings
lasting for nearly 600 years. A Pyu cultural mission
even went to China. Then there were
smaller Pyu states at Beikthano and Hanlin.
Archaeological excavation and some old stupas pointed
out those Pyu sites. Yet western historians would not
accept the native Myanmar history chronicles because the period was
still unbelievably early and also because, in ancient
writing the Myanmar history facts were often mixed up with fiction.
But it is a Myanmar history fact that Buddhism - history of Buddhism-
,
driven away from India,
had started to enter Myanmar through Sri Lanka during
this dynasty of Pyu
 
kings. Of course Myanmar history are also
the Mon cities near
the seacoast, such as
Thaton,
Dagon and Dala, could have
received Buddhism even earlier than the Pyus. Seafaring
Mons had reached India even when Buddha was living (i.e.
about 623-543 B.C.).
The foremost shrines in Myanmar -Shwe
Dagon at Dagon (Yangon) and
Kyaiktiyo at
Thaton
were built by Mons at that very early
period. The King of Thaton (Manuha) had in his library
30 sets of the whole Buddhist scriptures translated from
Pali to Mon (1057 A.D.). Myanmar history indicates that the great wheel of
 
Buddha’s Dhamma had been brought
to Myanmars shores by missionaries since Asoka’s time.
The wheel was then set up
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and ready, but it needed a strong person like
King Anawrahta of
Bagan to start
turning the wheel in motion, Myanmar is somehow part of
history of
Buddhism.
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