Important--this I do recommend
You may not be able to wrap your flibbergitty mind around anything longer than 500 words, but you should read this, esp if you consider yourself Burmese or great myanmar--
Bob Hudson, The Origins of Bagan, Ph.D. thesis, Univ of Sydney.
Disclaimer, I don't know and I have never met him, and he did not respond to an email asking for help as a reader for a Bagan novel.
https://www.academia.edu/2411556/Hudson-2004-The_Origins_Of_Bagan-PhD_thesis
You may not be able to wrap your flibbergitty mind around anything longer than 500 words, but you should read this, esp if you consider yourself Burmese or great myanmar--
Bob Hudson, The Origins of Bagan, Ph.D. thesis, Univ of Sydney.
Disclaimer, I don't know and I have never met him, and he did not respond to an email asking for help as a reader for a Bagan novel.
https://www.academia.edu/2411556/Hudson-2004-The_Origins_Of_Bagan-PhD_thesis
Hudson-2004-The Origins Of Bagan-PhD thesis
www.academia.edu