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The early history of the Kingdom of Arakan up to 1000 A.D.
U San Than Aung | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Up to now historians have largely neglected Arakan. This is mainly due to its geographical position on the boundary of India and Burma. Burmese historians have directed their efforts to elucidating such facts as can be ascertained about Burma proper more +

The Evolution of Buddhism in India
U San Tha Aung | Thursday, February 07, 2008
Immediately after the parinirvana of the Buddha, a large number of monks led by Mahakassapa gathered at Rajagriha, the capital of Magadha, under the patronage of Ajatasatru, to recite Buddha’s teachings. more +

Arakanese Nationalism and the Struggle for National self-determination
Khaing Aung Win | Saturday, June 04, 2005
Arakan had been an independent kingdom before it was invaded by the Burmans in 1784. The invasion of the Burmans into Arakan in 1784 led the Burmans into conflict with the British in British-India. more +

Dhanyawadi (CIRCA Mid 4th to Early 6th Century AD)
Narinjara News | Sunday, September 09, 2001
Dhanyawadi (Pali Dhannavati, "grain-blessed") was a city typical of the earliest phase of urbanization in Southeast Asia during the first centuries of the Christian era. While ele­ments of its culture undoubtedly derived from India more +

Vesali (CIRCA 6TH TO 8TH CELNI LRIES AD)
Narinjara News | Sunday, September 09, 2001
Some nine kilometres south of Dhanyawadi is the next im­portant city, Vesali (Wethali), founded around the begin­ning of the sixth century and named after the Indian city of Vaisali more +

Cities of Le-Mro Valley (11th -15th Centuries)
Narinjara News | Sunday, September 09, 2001
With the rise of the Burmese capital at Pagan a series of small Arakanese cities, Sambawak, Parein, Hkrit, and Launggret, succeeded each other on the lowlands west of the Le-mro River, while Toungoo Neyinzara was on its eastern side more +

MRAUK-U (1433-1785 AD)
Narinjara News | Friday, September 09, 1988
The Portuguese Jesuit, Father A. Farrinha, SJ, who trav­elled to Mrauk-U in 1639, wrote Mrauk-U, called Arakan by the many foreigners who visited it, occupies a unique site more +

A Bangladesh Ancient monastery cries for care
The Dailystar | Thursday, July 07, 2005
The ancient Paharpur Buddhist Monastery (Sompur Bihar) in Naogaon, a western region of Bangladesh, is in a sorry state.A huge number of terracotta plaques more +

Buddhism and Socio-Economic Development
Jarlath D'Souza | Thursday, July 07, 2005
From the earliest days of history, when human beings began to organize themselves into society, there has been an inter-play of two powerful agents of control, namely, State and Capital. more +

To be Buddhist in Contemporary Society
Pracha Hutanuwatr | Thursday, July 07, 2005
Buddhism during the first eighteen years of my life was very concern with ritual and magic rather than content. I grew up in a fruit orchard environment in the Bangkok suburbs where I went to government primary school more +

The Enlightenment - How Siddhartha Aattainted It
A TUN YAIN | Thursday, July 07, 2005
It was the full-moon day of the month of wesak (which usually falls in the earlier part of the month of may). The river Rohini now called the kohana was flowing through the kingdom of kapilavastu more +

Junta, the Burmese Taliban
Ko Gay | Tuesday, April 10, 2001
The Taliban has demolished the huge images of Lord Buddha in central Afghanistan''s Hindu Kush mountains that were carved in sandstone cliffs near the central city of Bamiyan more +

What do you mean Genuine Federation
Khin Maung | Saturday, July 07, 2001
The term "Genuine Federation" was and has been very use-to and familiar word to the component nations of today Burman Empire since last 40 years ago. Some are fighting for it. more +

Identities of The Rakhaing Community
Maung Than Aye | Saturday, July 07, 2001
The Rakhaing community of Bangladesh is one of the indigenous peoples living widely scattered in the districts of Cox''s Bazar, Chittagong, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Bandarban, Patuakhali & Bargura more +

King Mong Saw Mwan, The Founder of Mrauk-U City and Dynasty
Ah Lonn Maung | Saturday, July 07, 2001
Your majesty, you are a Thursday born, and so if the Royal Capital is going to be founded on the astrological calculations of "main", "lut", "sann", Your Majesty's life span will be lengthened more +

Paya Lanma (Lords Highway) over the Yoma (Yakhine Range)
Than Tun (Mandalay University) | Saturday, July 07, 2001
From the monastery of Thakhoottane in Monywa area, we got a black paper manuscript entitled Sakkaraj 1146 mha 1148 atwan: Kusuiltoau (Royal Deeds of Merit during 1724-1726). more +

Mahamuni tradition and its influence over Rakhaing people
Tun Shwe Khaing (M.A.) | Saturday, July 07, 2001
Mahamuni Tradition is not an afterthought. It is genuinely old and implicitly believed in by successive generations that came after it. According to the Rakhaing history more +

The Rakhine Kingdom
Rakha Oung | Saturday, July 07, 2001
Most of the Myanmar historians who have written and published quite a number of Books and pamphlets relate that the Rakhaings were the kanyans, a branch of Tibeto Burmans more +

The Rakhaing Nation Demands for Decolonization of Burma
Dr. Shwe Lu Maung | Saturday, July 07, 2001
I would like to welcome the new generation into our Rakkhita Liberation War or Patriotic Liberation War against the Myanmar Colonialism. I will present you the real ities that are always bitter more +

The Arakanese Resistance Movement against the British
Ba Shwe | Saturday, July 07, 2001
According the article III of the treaty of Yandabo, which concluded the Anglo-Burmese war of 1824-26, Arakan, together with Tenasserin was ceded to the British Colonial Empire. more +


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