The Chiang Mai Chronicle
Title | The Chiang Mai Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Wyatt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Chiang Mai (Thailand : Province) |
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A translation from Dai Yuen of one of the major versions of the Chronicle of Chiang Mai, a major city in northern Thailand, which was the capital of Lanna Thai, a former kingdom in northern Thailand.
History of Lan Na
Title | History of Lan Na PDF eBook |
Author | Saratsawadī ʻŌ̜ngsakun |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
History of Northern Thailand.
The Nan Chronicle
Title | The Nan Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Wyatt |
Publisher | SEAP Publications |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780877277156 |
Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; The Nan Chronicle and its Sources; 1. Main Manuscript (MS.1); 2. Shorter Version (MS.2); 3. Reliquary Chronicles; 4. The ""History of the Founding of Nan; 5. The ""Old Chronicle; 6. The ""Royal Genealogy; 7. The ""History of Nan and Treatise on Medicine; 8. Miscellaneous Manuscripts; The Lineage of the Texts; The Language of the Texts; Editing Procedures; Romanization; Possible Future Directions; ÂRAMBHAKATHÂ; INVOCATION; CHAPTER ONE -- ORIGINS OF THE MÜANG; CHAPTER TWO -- THE THAI KAO RULERS, CA. 1300-1448.
Chronicles of Chiang Khaeng
Title | Chronicles of Chiang Khaeng PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Grabowsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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Chronicles of Chiang Khaeng goes far beyond a mere annotated translation of four Lu chronicles. The polyglot co-authors, Grabowsky and Wichasin, take the annotations out of their meticulously researched footnotes of the translation proper and deftly integrate them into a history not only of a principality in northwestern Laos but a panorama of the jostlings for power among other chiang and their respective chao in the upper Mekong region. This geographic area outlines a cultural realm that shared Buddhist ethics and dhammic writing while also subscribing to the notion of hierarchy reinforced by demands for tribute, the display of regalia and pomp, and the brutal armed removal of local populations in incessant wars over human resources. Myth and history merge in these chronicles, which document sibling and spousal rivalries in networks of intermarriage and political alliances among the elite of the region. All of this was taking place at a time in history when the British and French arrived on the scene to engage China and newly emerging Siam in a mapping exercise that brought an end to centuries of regional rule by previously fairly autonomous city states. In this careful study, Chiang Khaeng emerges as a paradigm of a Southeast Asian tributary state with more than one overlord. Chronicles is a model of translation skill and historical acumen at its finest.
A History of Ayutthaya
Title | A History of Ayutthaya PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107190762 |
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
The Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya
Title | The Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Thailand |
ISBN |
The Legend of Queen Cāma
Title | The Legend of Queen Cāma PDF eBook |
Author | Donald K. Swearer |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1998-05-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438421672 |
The Legend of Queen Cāma ( Cāmadevīvaṃsa), an early fifteenth-century Pali chronicle written by Mahathera Bodhiraṃsi, recounts the story of the founding of the kingdom of Haripuñjaya in the Chiang Mai valley of Northern Thailand in the seventh century C.E. Similar to other Theravāda Pali chronicles, the legend integrates religious and political stories, namely, Queen Cāma's founding of a dynastic lineage and the fortunes of Buddhism within it. The Legend of Queen Cāma offers revealing insights into the nature of Buddhism as a living tradition during one of the greatest periods in the history of Thai Buddhism. These insights include the symbolic structure of Buddhist cosmology, the close association of Buddhism and the founding of city states, the interrelationship of popular Buddhist ethical teachings and devotional religion, and the inherently syncretic nature of Buddhism as presented in a text indebted to the folkloric traditions of Northern Thailand. One of the most striking features of the book is the parallelism between the text's dominant narratives--the Buddha's journey to Northern Thailand and his prediction of the discovery of a Buddha relic by King Adittaraja (eleventh century C.E.), and the founding by Queen Cāma of a lineage destined to govern Haripunjaya for five hundred years. The Buddha and Queen Cāma are equal partners in this creative, cosmically significant act. Both plant the seeds that mature into a Mon Buddhist politico-cultural center that predates the advent of Thai suzerainty in Northern Thailand by five hundred years.