High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1105
Pagan Kingdom flourishes under Kyansittha
1105
In upper Burma, the aging King Kyansittha presided over a golden age of Theravada Buddhism, commissioning the elegant Ananda Temple at Pagan - a masterpiece of Mon architecture whose gilded spire rose high above the flat Irrawaddy plain. His court patronized Pali scholarship, maintained diplomatic contact with the Song dynasty, and sent missions of monks to study in Sri Lanka.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.