Happy Independence Day!

Giving food to novice monks

Photo by

philip adolphe klier

Scene at the Thinn gan taung Mandalay 1895

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day! I'm posting again this favourite photograph - taken in 1948 on the Shwedagon by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson

`ငလ်င္ၾကီးျပီးစ ....ရန္ကုန္-တရုတ္တန္း ျမင္ကြင္း၊ .....၅၊ ၾသဂုတ္(၁၉၃၀)``

``ငလ်င္ၾကီးျပီးစ ....ရန္ကုန္-တရုတ္တန္း ျမင္ကြင္း၊ .....၅၊ ၾသဂုတ္(၁၉၃၀)``
.......After earthquake at China Street in Rangoon, Burma(1930)
(File Photo)

Young and Old - Offering Ceremony', Burma 1890s

Photograph by Max and Bertha Ferrars

`ဂႏၳဝင္ ရွင္ျပဳအလွဴေတာ္(၁၉၂၀?)`` (Credit: Ptoke)

`ဂႏၳဝင္ ရွင္ျပဳအလွဴေတာ္(၁၉၂၀?)`` (Credit: Ptoke)

`ဂႏၳဝင္ ရွင္ျပဳအလွဴေတာ္(၁၉၂၀?)`` (Credit: Ptoke)

မနၱေလးျမိဳ့ စီ လမ္းေပၚမွ အသုဘတစ္ခု။ ၁၈၈၅ ခန္ ့ျဖစ္မလားမသိ။

#MissBurmaInternational1961

လြန္ခဲ႕ေသာ ၅၁ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္က Miss International မွာ
ျပိဳင္ခဲတဲ႕မယ္ဗမာ Minnie Pu ရဲ႕ရွားပါးပုံေလးပါ။

Bahai community

Leaders of the Mandalay Bahai community in 1930. The Bahai are one of Myanmar's smallest and perhaps least known religious minorities. There are an estimated 80,000 Bahai in Myanmar.

Bahai is a world-wide religion of about 5 million people (mainly in Asia, Africa and the America) that was founded in the mid-19th century. The first Burmese converted to the Bahai faith in the late 19th century. Interestingly, the huge marble sarcophagus in which the Bahai founded is buried (on Mount Carmel in Israel) was made in Mandalay.( By Than Myint -U)

Mandalay

A bubonic plague pandemic killed more than 15 million people around the world (mainly in India and China) in the early 1900s. It originated in Yunnan and killed thousands in Rangoon and Mandalay between 1905-6.

My great-grandfather, U Maung Maung Gyi of Mandalay was one of those who died from the plague in 1906. He was then in his 40s.

I recently found this photograph of people in Mandalay been 'vaccinated' against the plague by a British physician. The 'vaccination' was fairly ineffectual (and had serious side-efffects'; I think the photograph was meant to show the colonial authorities in a good light, looking after their new Upper Burma subjects.
By Than Myint Oo

`လြတ္လပ္ေရးအထိမ္းအမွတ္ စာအိတ္(၁၉၅၁)``

`ဆြမ္းခံခ်ိန္(၁၉၀၀)

``မီးရထား သံလမ္းစစ္ေဆး?(၁၉၀၀?)

``ငါးစာေကၽြး၍ ကုသိုလ္ယူ၊ ....ပဲခူး(၁၉၃၀?)``

ေရွးရုပ္ပြားေတာ္တစ္ဆူ ေဖြရွာေတြ႔(၁၉၀၀?)``

``Scoop: မင္းကြန္းတြင္ ငလ်င္ျပင္းစြာ လႈပ္(၁၈၉၇)

``Scoop: မင္းကြန္းတြင္ ငလ်င္ျပင္းစြာ လႈပ္(၁၈၉၇)