[PDF] The Chin People eBook

Author : Chester U. Strait
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1493163094

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Moving upstream on the Irrawaddy broad tide, the ocean liner approaches the city of Rangoon, and the gold-leafed pinnacle of the celebrated Shwe Dagon pagoda welcomes it as it rises magnificently in the morning sunlight. The traveler is intrigued with the claim that this ancient shrine has been standing for three thousand years. This injects an anachronism, since Buddhism was founded not more than twenty-five centuries ago and something less than that for its lodgment in Burma. But no one seems to be embarrassed nor stultified by what, for them, is merely a slight chronological inaccuracy, which derives from the time-clocked occidental measurements, for theirs is that timeless eternity of the East.

Author : Hre Mang
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781545680520

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The Chin Leadership is first of its kind for the Chin leadership studies. It digged the leadership historical trend of the Chin people since before the time of the British invasion to the modern era. This book gives the leadership insights for students who want to learn about the Chin leadership as well as for leaders's practical guide, providing the leadership history, compared with the global leadership theories and practices to help the best applications. Rev. Hre Mang, Ph.D. lives with his family, wife Lynda Tumpar, and two sons Ginny Zalan Mang and Moses Cung Hlei Mang. Holding Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.), Master of Theology (M.Th.), Batchelor of Political Science (B.A.), Master of Public Affaiirs (M.P.A.), and Ph.D. in leadership degrees, he is a pastor, speaker, trainer, leadership coach, consultant, and is an author. Born and brought up in Burma, the author, a former social political activist, now living in the USA, travels around the world for speaking and training leaders to serve God and make the world a better place to live.

Author : Teh Han Lin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781366463036

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The remote mountain town of Mindat is a district of the Chin state in the west of Myanmar, situated at 4,860 feet above the sea level and about 5 to 7 hours drive from Bagan. The remote tribal Mindat area, was restricted by the Burmese government until three years ago and now is open for tourist.Mindat is a town known for its untouched traditional culture, a place to meet the fascinating tatooed face women who made this area known to the world.The Chin people in Southern Chin Hills used to have the custom of tattooing on the face of the women.There are many stories about the origin of Chin tattoos, one of them, being that these tribes first began to ink their faces as a way of disfiguring their beauty, to make themselves unattractive in hopes that by doing so, they could avoid being kidnapped or chosen as concubines by the Burmese kings. A different legend states that they were tattooed distinctively to allow for identification with their tribe of origin in the event that they were kidnapped by another tribe. Another reason was that they believed the tatoos were beautiful, or a mark of beauty, they believed that with it, it made them more attractive and would receive attention from young men. Although nobody could authenticate the validity of this story.

Author : Amy Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Chin (Southeast Asian people)
ISBN :

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"In this 93-page report, Human Rights Watch documents a wide range of human rights abuses carried out by the Burmese army and government officials. The abuses include forced labor, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, religious repression and other restrictions on fundamental freedoms. In Mizoram state, India, Chin people remain at risk of discrimination and abuse by local Mizo groups and local authorities, and of being forced back across the border into Burma."--Human Rights Watch website.

Author : Lian H. Sakhong
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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Chinram was once an independent land ruled by Chin chiefs and where the people followed traditional Chin religion. By the turn of the twentieth century however, it had been abruptly transformed by British annexation and the arrival of Christian missionaries. As the Chin became increasingly related to Burmese independence movements, they began to articulate their own Christian traditions of democracy and assert a burgeoning self-awareness of their own national identity. In short, Christianity provided the Chin people with a means of preserving their national identity in the midst of multiracial and multireligious environments. Written by an exiled former Secretary General of the Chin National League for Democracy, this is the first in-depth study on Chin nationalism and Christianity. Not only does it provide a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion, ethnicity and nationalism, but also the volume contains valuable data on the Chin and their role in the history of Bruma.