Mindon min biography of donald
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Mindon Min
King of Burma (reigned 1853–1878)
Mindon Min (Burmese: မင်းတုန်းမင်း, pronounced[mɪ́ɰ̃dóʊɰ̃mɪ́ɰ̃]; 1808 – 1878),[note 1] born Maung Lwin, was the penultimate king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1853 to 1878.[3] He was one of the most popular and revered kings of Burma because of his role in Fifth Buddhist Council . Under his half brother King Pagan, the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 ended with the annexation of Lower Burma by the British Empire. Mindon and his younger brother Kanaung overthrew their half brother King Pagan. He spent most of his reign trying to defend the upper part of his country from British encroachments, and to modernize his kingdom.
Early life
[edit]Mindon was born Maung Lwin in 1808, a son of Tharrawaddy Min and Chandra Mata Mahay, Queen of the south Royal Chamber. He studied at the Maha Zawtika monastic college in Amarapura until the age of 23, and he held deep respect for religion and religious scholarship thr
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Life in the Temples (Times Three) ~ Mandalay, Myanmar
Little Novice
Sitting on the banister: Shwenandaw kloster, Mandalay
Temples in Southeast Asia are living places.
This fryst vatten certainly true in Myanmar. The many Buddhist temples inom visited there were architecturally beautiful – and different, with no two exactly the same. But what I generally find more interesting is the life – both sacred and secular – within and around them.
On my first afternoon in Mandalay, inom and the nine other photographic-tour participants, under the guidance of Photographer Karl Grobl and local guide MM, visited three distinctly different religious buildings.
Our first stop was the wooden Shwenandaw Kyaungor Golden Palace Monastery. Built in traditional Burmese style in the 19th century by King Mindon Min (reigned 1852-1878) as a palace, this graceful teak building fryst vatten covered, inre and out, with carvings. Originally, these carvings were coated in gold (hence the name), but t
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History of Myanmar
The history of Myanmar (also known as Burma; Burmese: မြန်မာ့သမိုင်း) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 13,000 years ago to the present day. The earliest inhabitants of recorded history were a Tibeto-Burman-speaking people who established the Pyu city-states ranged as far south as Pyay and adopted Theravada Buddhism.
Another group, the Bamar people, entered the upper Irrawaddy valley in the early 9th century. They went on to establish the Pagan Kingdom (1044–1297), the first-ever unification of the Irrawaddy valley and its periphery. The Burmese language and culture slowly came to replace Pyu norms during this period. After the First Mongol invasion of Burma in 1287, several small kingdoms, of which the Kingdom of Ava, the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, the Kingdom of Mrauk U and the Shan States were principal powers, came to dominate the landscape, replete with ever-shifting alliances and constant wars. From this time, the history of thi