Nai Pan Hla

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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]

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]

He died on 18 June 2010 in Yangon after suffering a paralytic stroke.^[1]

• A Short Mon History (2013)
• Struggle of Rajadhiraj (1977)