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Its too bad he succeeded... because now we have Justin Trudeau... 😢😢😢😢😢

Thanks for covering Myanmar History

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Anawrahta ✅ Bayinnaung ✅ Alaungpaya ❌ Only one video about our last man remains and Stoic Historian would have covered the 3 greatest rulers of Burma. Could you please make one about him ?

Good vid brother

There is a story behind why Tabinshwehti trusted Bayintnaung so much. The story goes like this. When the two boys were young like 6 or 7 years old, they were sent to the king's monestary to learn martial arts, warefare, kingcraft and so on. When they were starting to study under the monestary, the head monk notices Bayinnaung was more talented than Tabinshwehti. So one day he called Bayinnaung privately and told him "If he ever want to be sucessful in life, he should let Tabinshwehti wins everythings in life". From that day forward, Bayinnaung place himself second behind Tabinshwehti for everything they do whether be acedemics or just playing childish games. When they got older, Tabinshwehti started to suspect that Bayintnaung let him win on purpose. So he ask Bayintnaung "Dear Naung-taw (old burmese word for older brother), why do you let me win all the time". And Bayintnaung answer "Dear prince, I can't compete to your Divine-Regal aura (Bone-taw)". From that day forward, Tabinshwehti trusted Bayintnaung completely because he realised Bayintnaung might be talented but he wont outshine him, Bayintnaung would rather sacrifice his image and pride to let Tabinshwehti stand tall above others.

loved your info, hated your music, please think twice about your choice of weird background music. I thought I was watching a Woody Allen movie

May you have the blessings of our great lord, the Tathagatha...

Freind can you do a video on King Dutta gamini( dutugemunu) the great of Sri Lanka. Great video anyway...

Good history and thanks for dharing

This is such a good learning experience even for a native Burmese like me.

It's not fault to worship a great king but what he was qonquered are people in Mynmar nowaday too, this is part of reasons made Mynmar situation now aday😢

ในถานะคนไทย กษัตริย์พม่าคือกษัตริย์นักรบ น่าชื่นชมทุกพระองค์ และตั้งแต่มีชาติตะวันตกเข้ามาพม่าก็ล่มสลายฟื้นตัวไม่ได้อีกเลยจนตอนนี้

please consider creating a video about Karim Khan Zand.

Please make a video on Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar especially* his reconquest of Georgia & the rest of the Caucasus.*

There are smart burmese people, but they cant be productive or innovative, under a military dictatorship.

The history of Burma/Myanmar is just like the rest of South East Asia, which had a long history of influence from India on local indigenous Austroasiatic populations prior to the migration and influence of populations from Southern China. And this flow accelerated after the arrival of Europeans as they began to use Chinese populations as preferred workers and traders within the colonial system, leading to the SEA we know today.

That's not true because now many myanmar historians considers pyu kingdom and rulers are the first kingdom of most of myanmar except some historians still rejecting that. But evidences more found if we can get more tech and help

Can you make one about the khmer king next? 🙏

11:42 Imagine saying this 10 times fast

Long live Armenia. From iran

So much thanks to U /say burmese life start un till now today? Best land with green living 2025?Land live with the way king pray to be live people today?

Great king

45:52 and there is a legend that says Arakan king land is where Buddha and the Monk travel when Buddha was still alive

23:25 the legend said she has long wavy black hair, pale skin and beautiful red rosey cheek she is also a good Buddhist the way she talks can make a mens fall head over heels for her

29:07 "နတ်" like an angel there are seven floor of heaven the most powerful live in the upper floor of the heaven and the are like the kings of low angels They possess internal beauty and They live happily and they watch over us have a saying "One Day in heaven is like 100 years in human world"

22:24 we have a saying that over ogre as a shape shifter she can turn into beautiful woman

3:56 didn't notice that I'm also Burmese but we called ourselves Arakan

Alot of this it meer legend not true to history

Burmese native and Historian here. Great video and i hope it gets more views. Even with a few mistakes i would give this a solid 8.5 out of 10 in terms of accuracy and coverage. Here are my remarks on what i would like to add or remark. 1. The discussion of the Pyu people are a debate still in Myanmar. Most likely due to us, unable read most of their language and find proper city structures. So yea its complicated but you oversimplified it. Which is good. 2. King Anawrahta, wanted the purest form of Theravada Buddhism in which he banned all animalist religions. Some even stated that he personally went to the temples, tied all the statues of the nats and whipped them. But still the Nat(နတ်) worshippers didn't stopped and just went underground. Because of that people aren't comverting to buddhism and after a while he officially recognized the 37 nats (၃၇မင်း) as the gurdians of Buddhism and etc. But some nat worshippers still believe that his death on 11 April 1077 was a punishment by the nats, in which the Burmese mythology stated that he was killed by a spirit who was in the shape of a raging water buffalo and he got killed while he was on the elephant, by that water buffalo. But in reality is that he was killed possibly by nat worshippers who are mad at him for banning and whipping the nats or internal affairs like you stated because his body was never recovered. 3. The 2 orge brothers (Min Gyi and Min Lay မင်းကြီး မင်းလေး) were not executed by Anawrahta, he only ordered to punish them but jealous officials killed them. And in return as a apology to the dead brothers he appointed them as guardian nats of mount Popa. 4. Queen Saw Mon Hla was not excuted. She changed the facing in time for the inspector and was not punished. She went back to Shan state and built even more temples and Pagodas. 5. After getting Manisandar of Khin Oo by Kyansitthar and other officials, she was suspected by the officials to be a body double and not the real one. That and the fact that Manisandar and Kyansitthat falling in love was enough for the jealous officials in the king's court to order the king to excute Kyansitthar himself. Although he was pressured to do so King Anawrahta didn't really want to kill is potent and capable general and his heir so he threw his spear at Kyansitthat pretending to kill him but the spear only hit the ropes that tied him and Kyansitthar escaped with the king's spear in hand. Anyway great video and great research. Burmese history of that era was very complicated and mixed with mythology and real facts even us burmese historians debate whenever we have the discussion but u made it a proper long video. Thank you for showcasing our history to the world. And i hope you would do more Burmese History on your channel.

Can you please do a video on the Buddhist monasteries of Nālandā and Vikramashila which produced famed philosophers and sent missionaries to Tibet, China and more??

One thing that is strange for Burmese history, before Bagan, the Pyu people were probably unified or probably not . This is quite difficult to tell because of inscriptions. We cannot decipher most of the inscriptions. We don't know the language. We only can read some Sanskrit and Pali translations. However, the local legends surrounding the Pyu, especially the Sri Krestra kingdom, suggest that Sri Krestra may have been united due to its giant size and also its prosperity. We can suggest that it did have a great golden age. In the local legends the king rules the big city while the rest are ruled by the royal family members.

I used to visit bagan annually since I was 7 years old with my family. His temples are really amazing but during our civil war, we are struggling to maintain them properly. Some random dudes even destoryed the original stone plates of stupas to replace with modern ones. And now we got flooding and bagan also suffer from that.

interestingly..the first president of burma is an ethnic shan, not burmese...

In myanmar, he defended Pegu from khmer and champ invasion with his 4warriors who are equal with 400000 soldiers and dispatched soldiers to Sri Lanka to fight with Chola.

Saw Mon Hla wasn't exucated. She later heard this news and make the stupa turn to Bagan. After this she left and return to her home in Thibaw where she died after just arriving probably due to stress in her father's arm. Later she was worshipped as a gurdian of Thibaw and still worshipped today. Her brother Saw Kun Naung was not happy the fact his sister died like this inculding his other siblings. Later all of the other siblings and Saw Kun Naung himself died of many reasons such as executions, sacrifice and heartbreak . These Shan Siblings are worshipped as Nats in their local regions of Shan State as well as the Mandalay region where they died. Saw Mon Hla was deeply in love with her husband. She met Mani Sandar when she was leaving and talked to Mani Sandar about her husband. Later the two said goodbye to each other.

Excellent Video

I see this channel blowing up in a couple months with this quality. Just gotta play the algorithm!

Daring attempt 😂, because there's a Burmese saying "You have to bring Cudgel/Club , if you are going to discuss/debate about Bagan History " . There are a lot of versions, variations and no evidence to support. Lack of official records made most accounts just myth and hard to prove anyway. We still need more archeology research in Myanmar and to find accounts in other countries history account. As for Burmese, they brought those stories as Grandma's bed time tales. There are some attempts to records those events in later Burmese dynasties, but they did not use scientific approch, and some just use to make their dynasty more legitimate and make their kings great. But great work anyway. Those tales are worth remembering, and only with people attempts to record what we have and discover more what we do not know yet, we can make more definitive history of Bagan, and Myanmar as a whole.

Criminally underrated channel

Outstanding work! Thank you!

Kyi - So, not kioso, it’s King Kyi- So, you can pronounce like Kyii- So is much more accurate, and Sokkete, Sok- Ke- Te. According to later inscription and research, Kyansitta isn’t son of Anawratha , but adopted as son of king, he’s a son of minister and king’s consort , his story is mostly fantastic, Kyansitta , his father was a minister in early reign of Anawratha , King send his minister( Kyansitta father) to west for bring his political marriage consort , city name is Vaseli( Wai-Tha-li in Burmese) but city’s location is still controversial, maybe in Northern Rakhine or some said maybe in Eastern Bengaladesh, but sure that Kyansitta mom isn’t Burmese after all, the minister brought the consort but they’re in affair in returning journey, some legends said minister manipulated with he left one guard or maid in each village and outpost or town in returning home, when they arrived Bagan, minister said that consort isn’t really princess of Vesalius,just maid from city - state of Vasali, King Anawratha was so furious and want to get in war , so he prepared for war and the consort( princess) was resided in remote village called Hti - Hlaing, Klan village from north of Bagan, Klan means local headman of village or warrior class of Bagan time. But in Birth of Kyansitta, the kingdom of Bagan fall in major Plague (maybe influenza or pox) , so king postponed the war, later ,king tried prepared war again in Kyansitta age of 10, but flood in Bagan disrupted again. Later, Kyansitta become Klan of Hti-Hlaing village, and his martial prowess and strategic political strength brought him to king court and he became the one of the four Nat Generals ( god general or deva general) or Four Paladins, you can say, after he successfully managed to help king Anawratha for conversion of Bagan religion to Theravada Buddhism, Anawratha adopted him as a son and praised him as leader of Four paladin or four god generals, he’s the major protagonist of conquest of southern Myanmar in Anawratha times and war of Joons( Khmer empire) - war between Bagan and Khmer empire and again, lead protagonist to repelled Khmer armies back to Thailand,after Kyansitta managed to stabilized whole Myanmar, King Anawratha want Kyansitta to bring Mon princess name Khin Oo or Manisanda to Bagan as political marriage from mon vassal king, but again , Kyansittha like his father, he fall in love with Manisanda and got in affair , after they arrived in capital, King knew this affair and ministers want Kyansitta to be in public dead sentence,maybe , Kyansitta is too powerful and popular than heir Saw Lu, so every ministers want him to die, except generals and subjects, so king Anawratha self-declared he will publicly do the dead penalty of Kyansitta, some legend also said king anawratha set freed Kyansitta on purpose because he’s too precious for country or maybe King Anawratha really view him as his son and love him. So Kyansitta runway and hided around at his birthplace until King Anawratha died and new kings ascension, in time of second king , King Saw Lu, Mon rebellion broke out and almost they can conquer Bagan but Kyansitta again successfully fought back and reunited the kingdom in order and one piece. So , typically, Kyansitta built new dynasty but I think , for future political troubles, he just assumed his identity as a son of King Anawratha and also he adopted the house of Bagan and he also married 4 wives included daughter of Anawratha and sister of Saw Lu, and also he married Manisanda , Shan princess from east and Rakhine Princess from west, Whatever , Bagan kingdom started Golden age from his reign to his successor Alaungsithu for almost a century peace and prosperity and also powerful kingdom in Southeast Asia or even he managed to get tributaries from Yunnan China and Bangladesh. If you want to know more lores and history about Myanmar kings , just ask me freely, cheers mate 😊

Not "Ky an sit thar" but "Kjan sit thar"