Sunday, February 15, 2009

I've just found an article by famous Burmese poet Zawgyi (U Thein Han) in Atlantic Monthly 1958

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/195802/burma-early-art

It contains the Alaungsithu Sutaung or Alaungsithu Prayer --

from the 11th century, translated by the famous historian Gordon H. Luce.

I have been looking for this prayer for over a decade and so am mighty pleased to have found it.

Kyi May Kaung.

When Nathan Thompson, now CEO of the Atlantic, spoke kind words of me--

At that time I did not connect the "Thompson" in his name with Scott Thompson who helped us at Free Burma Coalition a great deal. ...