Nai Pan Hla
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- Anthropologist
- historian
- researcher
Nai Pan Hla | |
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နိုင်ပန်းလှ | |
| Born | 1923 |
| Died | 18 June 2010 (aged 87) |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Pacific Western University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Southeast Asian history |
| Institutions | Meio University |
Nai Pan Hla (Burmese: နိုင်ပန်းလှ, Mon: နာဲပါန်လှ; 1923 – 18 June 2010) was a Burmese historian and cultural anthropologist of Mon descent. Throughout his career, he published many works on Mon ethnography, including the best-seller The Struggle of Rajadhiraj.[1][2]
Pan Hla was born in March 1923 in Kawkareik Township, British Burma to Nai Jawt and Mi Cho.[1][2] He earned bachelors, law, and doctorate degrees from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles.[2][1]
Career
In 1953, he joined the Ministry of Culture's archaeological department, serving as an official of Mon literature and culture.[2] He published the best-seller Struggle of Rajadhiraj, about Razadarit, in 1977.[2]
In 1992, he published Eleven Mon Dhammasattha Texts.[3] In 1994, he became a professor at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, where he taught Southeast Asian literature and history, and returned to Myanmar in 1998.[2][1] He published A Short Mon History in 2013.[3]
