This is a book of history of Buddhism in Myanmar and Thailand. The author has also given a chapter on introduction. In this chapter he has written about the evolution of Buddhism in India and Sri Lanka. This book deals ancient link and transmission of Theravada Buddhism into Myanmar in the 11 century and into Thailand in the 13 century. The author has tried to resolve the debate of ‘Swarna Bhumi’ in this book for history students. This book will be very helpful because in one chapter they can have a brief history of Myanmar and Thailand.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.M. Haldhar
S.M. Haldhar B.A. (Hons.) Patna College, Patna University, Bihar. M.A. Delhi University, Ph.D. History, M.D. University, Rohtak. He had taught history at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College in 1997-98 and Saheed Bhagat Singh College (Morning) in 1998-99, University of Delhi. In the year of 2000, he was awarded senior Fellowship from ICHR, New Delhi. Right now he is affiliated to Deptt. of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi. There he taught Spread of Buddhism outside India. He is member of Indian History congress. A dozen of his research papers have been published by national and international research journal of repute. To collect research materials he has toured Archaeological sites of Peshawar, Taxila, Harappa, Lahore, Islamabad in Pakistan, Mynamati Archaeological sites of Bangaladesh, Anuradhappur, Polonuruva, Kendy, Colombo in Srilanka, Thimpu in Bhutan and Kathmandu, Lumbini in Nepal. His research papers Archaeological evidence from Anuradhapur has been published in the 5th World Archaeological Congress, held at Washington D.C. in June 2003.
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