Tag / Burma
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Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities
The Royal Asiatic Society and the National University of Singapore Press are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the publication, ‘Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma’ by François…
30 April 2021 -
Old Bagan, and The Human Odyssey
The last fortnight has seen perhaps the Society’s busiest period during this academic term. Following the three evening events last week, the Society was delighted to host another two lectures this week.…
22 November 2019 -
Conserving and Celebrating our Burmese Collections
Earlier this week, the Society hosted a small event to commemorate the conservation of one of its manuscripts. This is a Kammavācā, a Pali term which means “an assemblage of passages from…
4 October 2019 -
General John Briggs (1785-1875)
John Briggs was an officer in the East India Company army. He entered the Madras army in 1801 and accompanied Sir John Malcolm on his mission to Persia in 1810. Briggs took…
26 April 2019 -
Philip Davies (Author) – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII
Published on 15th August to commemorate Victory Over Japan day, Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma uncovers one of the last great unknown stories of World War II. The book has received a wonderful publication week, with a…
17 September 2018 -
Burma and Buddhism
In the first of the RAS Lecture Series for 2015-2016, Professor Janice Stargardt from the University of Cambridge spoke about the adoption of Buddhism in Burma using the case study of Sri…
9 October 2015
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