Posts Tagged ‘Mindon Min’

Myanmar Royal Massacre and Palace coup d’etat သီေပၚမင္း နန္းတက္နုိင္ဖုိ႔ မင္းညီ မင္းသား မ်ားကို သုတ္သင္ ေနပုံ

February 8, 2013

Royal massacre

Source: FB of Khin Maung

ဆရာခ်ဳံ ရဲ႕ လက္ရာ (သီေပၚမင္း ေနာက္ေက်ာလုံလုံ နန္းတက္နုိင္ဖုိ႔)မင္းညီ မင္းသား မ်ားကို သုတ္သင္ ေနပုံ ပန္ခ်ီကား

“With all beautiful carvings and decorations, the palace was truly a work of art. Ironically, the most intriguing thing about it was not its beauty but the horrid story of a massacre,” says Paothong.

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Myanmar Chinese Muslim Masjids

January 3, 2011

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Panthays form a group of Chinese Muslims in Burma. Some people refer to Panthays as the oldest group of Chinese Muslims in Burma. However, because of intermixing and cultural diffusion the Panthays are not as distinct a group as they once were.

Panthay ( MLCTS: pan: se: lu myui: is a term used to refer to the predominantly Muslim Hui people of China who migrated to Burma. They are among the largest groups of Burmese Chinese, and predominantly reside in the northern regions of Burma (formerly known as Upper Burma), particularly in the Tangyan-Maymyo-MandalayTaunggyi area and Shan States.

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Burmese Muslims during Amarapura Kings era

January 3, 2011

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Two thousand families, 8000 population, 40 (may be up to 120 mosques) in a relatively small Amarapura Capital in 1885 is impressive. THOSE Bigot authorities giving 3 fold IC or National Registration cards to those Muslims in Amarapura and Mandalay should notice this strong evidence…

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A Kathé or Munnipoore Horseman

January 2, 2011

Source:British Library Online Gallery

Artist: Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)

Medium: Watercolour with pen and ink

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