Arakan definition of Arakan in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

More interesting than the marble Buddha itself are large pictures at the entrance to the platform, showing top military leaders paying their devotions, strikingly reminiscent of pictures displayed at the Maha Muni Temple in Mandalay depicting the eighteenth-century King Bodawpaya welcoming the sacred Maha Muni or Arakan Buddha image to his royal capital.

The state and the city: 1988 and the transformation of Rangoon by Seekins, Donald M. / Pacific Affairs

While there is a fair amount of material available about some of the ethnic groups, such as the Karen, Kachin and Shah, other groups, such as the Naga, Arakan and Pao, have virtually nothing written or published about their struggle.

A structural analysis of the ethnic insurgency in Burma by Redmon, Larry J. / Special Warfare

The Union of Burma is an ethnic mosaic in which the Borman ethnic group make up about 68 percent of the national population, while the remaining third is divided among a host of minority groups such as the Karen, Shan, Kachin, Chin, Mon, Pao, Arakan and others.

The strings of neutralism: Burma (1) and the Colombo Plan by Adeleke, Ademola / Pacific Affairs

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