While legend tells us that Buddhism first came to Burma from northern India, and the Tantric element in the religion of Pagan before King Anawrahta’s reforms implies an overland link with Nepal ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

According to the Myanmar chronicles, the very first king of Bagan, Anawrahta (Anuruddha) made a miraculous trip to Sri Lanka in the 11th century to obtain a replica of the Tooth Relic from his friend ...