The Thiri Rama : finding Ramayana in Myanmar

Author(s)

• Rooney, Dawn

Bibliographic Information

The Thiri Rama : finding Ramayana in Myanmar

edited by Dawn F. Rooney

Routledge, 2019, c2017

• : pbk

Uniform Title

Rāma vatthu

Note

Originally published in hardback, 2017

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-363) and index

"The Thiri Rama - or the Great Rama - was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscript and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar, this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose"--Back cover

Details

• NCID: BC05281324
• ISBN:
  • 9780367885656
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: bur
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 371 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 895.821
  • LCC : PL3988
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rāma vatthu
  • LCSH : Burmese drama
  • LCSH : Rāma (Hindu deity) -- Drama
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA0040720X