Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Keynote: The Myth of “Splendid Isolation”
- 2 Analysis of Construction Technologies in Pyu Cities and Bagan
- 3 Khraung-kaik Pitaka-taik: 16th-Century Repositories for Buddhist Scriptures in Mrauk-U
- 4 Religious Symbols as Decorations on the Sikhara of Ancient Monuments in the Late Bagan Period
- 5 The Viṣṇu on Garuḍa from the Nat Hlaung Kyaung Temple, Bagan
- 6 A Thousand Years before Bagan: Radiocarbon Dates and Myanmar's Ancient Pyu Cities
- 7 Ta Mok Shwe-Gu-Gyi Temple Kyaukse and Bagan
- 8 Silver Links! Bagan–Bengal and Shadowy Metal Corridors: 9th to 13th Centuries
- 9 Positioning Bagan in the Buddhist Ecumene: Myanmar's Trans-Polity Connections
- 10 Orthogeneity, Settlement Patterns and Earthenware Pottery Distribution in Bagan
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
1 - Keynote: The Myth of “Splendid Isolation”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Keynote: The Myth of “Splendid Isolation”
- 2 Analysis of Construction Technologies in Pyu Cities and Bagan
- 3 Khraung-kaik Pitaka-taik: 16th-Century Repositories for Buddhist Scriptures in Mrauk-U
- 4 Religious Symbols as Decorations on the Sikhara of Ancient Monuments in the Late Bagan Period
- 5 The Viṣṇu on Garuḍa from the Nat Hlaung Kyaung Temple, Bagan
- 6 A Thousand Years before Bagan: Radiocarbon Dates and Myanmar's Ancient Pyu Cities
- 7 Ta Mok Shwe-Gu-Gyi Temple Kyaukse and Bagan
- 8 Silver Links! Bagan–Bengal and Shadowy Metal Corridors: 9th to 13th Centuries
- 9 Positioning Bagan in the Buddhist Ecumene: Myanmar's Trans-Polity Connections
- 10 Orthogeneity, Settlement Patterns and Earthenware Pottery Distribution in Bagan
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Information
- Bagan and the WorldEarly Myanmar and Its Global Connections, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2017