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Mindon

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Mindon

(born 1814, Amarapura, Myanmar—died Oct. 1, 1878, Mandalay) King of Myanmar (Burma; r. 1853–78). He came to power after the Second Anglo-Burmese War. He was unable to persuade the British to return Pegu (in southern Myanmar) and was also forced to make large economic concessions. Domestically, his reign was a time of numerous reforms and great cultural and religious flowering. In 1857 he built the new capital, Mandalay, with palaces and monasteries that are masterpieces of traditional Myanmar architecture. He held the Fifth Buddhist Council there in 1871 in an effort to revise and purify the Pali scriptures.



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In March-April 1999, the patron of the Shwedagon Zedi All-Round Perpetual Renovation Committee, Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, supervised the replacement of the gold umbrella (htidaw) donated by King Mindon in the nineteenth century.
The state and the city: 1988 and the transformation of Rangoon by Seekins, Donald M. / Pacific Affairs
At a time when Thailand was expanding its production of grain and supporting both a growing population and financing a variety of modernization projects, Burma was forever short of foreign exchange and, when King Mindon tried to modernize his country, he was blocked by its shortage of funds and the unwillingness of the British, who controlled lower Burma, to cooperate in realizing those ends.
The Making of Modern Burma. (Book Reviews) by Silverstein, Josef / Pacific Affairs
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