http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/default.asp Top Stories - Scholars Column ASP News Manager CMS V3.1 en-us 8/18/2009 8:28:01 AM Copyright http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Padre-Maestro-Frey-Seb.-Manrique-in-Arakan.asp 12/31/2010 Before proceeding with my story, I think it good to give a special account of that Royal City, which gives to the Kingdom the name of Arracan, the Metropolis of the other Kingdom subject to its crown http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Mahamuni-tradition-and-its-influence-over-Rakhaing-people.asp 12/31/2010 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, kings of Rakhaing http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/The-Excavations-At-Koe-Thaung.asp 12/31/2010 The site is on flat marshy land, surrounded by paddy fields, and northeast of the place in the centre of the Mrauk-U. Tradition has it that the Koe-Thaung was struck by lighting http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Cultural-And-Religious-Relation-Between-India-And-Dhanyawady,-A-Buddhistic-Land-Of-Rakhine.asp 12/31/2010 The places like Lumbini-Nepal, Bodh-GayaNorthern India, Sarnath, Varanasi-U.P. and KushinagarU.P. are the four noteworthy locations, where Gautama Buddha was born, gained enlightenment http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Religions-in-Arakan.asp 8/9/2009 Among the 7 Union States of Burma the Rakhine State or the Arakan is the immediate neighbour of the Subcontinent. There might have been some contacts between Arakan and the Subcontinent since the first dynasty of the Arakanese. http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/On-the-Evolution-of-Rohingya-Problems-in-Rakhine-State-of-Burma1.asp 8/9/2009 The monsoon season in South and Southeast Asia brings catastrophes to these regions every year. Storms, cyclones and floods are yearly events which bring about loss of crops and lives and heavy human migrations, particularly in certain areas. http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Bangladesh-Indebtedness-to-Myanmar.asp 12/28/2008 Although a State of the Muslim majority, there is a considerable number of Buddhist population in Bangladesh. They are scattered in south and southeastern parts of the country. http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/These-Buddhist-Kings-with-Muslim-Names....asp 12/28/2008 ‘Shut off from Burma by a hill range, Arakan has a separate history, but it is the same in kind’, is one of those unhappy generalizations of Geoffey, Harvey, the British colonial historian, which are waiting to be shaken by thorough research. http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Report-on-the-conditions-and-sufferings-of-the-Rakhaings-in-Maungdaw.asp 12/28/2008 During the time of British rule, the first chance for governing Maungdaw was given to Maung Nyo, grandson of a Rakhaing king. http://www.rakhapura.com/Scholars-Column/Lack-of-Unity-and-Diplomacy--Made-To-Lose-Sovereignty.asp 12/28/2008 At the end of 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century the kingdom of Arakan's revival was almost east as Mogul empire had been rising its military and political power in South Asia