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New Mandala readers who pay close attention to Burma matters will appreciate the electronic version of Dr Andrew Selth’s Burma (Myanmar) since the 1988 uprising: A select bibliography. All 85 pages are available here. It begins with a foreword from Professor David I. Steinberg (who was interviewed by New Mandala many years ago). According to Steinberg:
This new bibliography, which should become an essential reference for those even minimally concerned with Burma/Myanmar, is path-breaking, and is a critical guide to those both figuratively and literally Burma bound…
Hard to put it better than that. I have already recommended it to my own Burma-focused students and suggest that anybody looking to pursue the serious study of the country will benefit from its wide-ranging insights.
Almost a thousand titles… Is this a catalogue of his own library? Selth is carving himself a position of legend. Why isn’t he in Canberra where something newly constructed at ANU could be named after him? Or even a room in Coombs. The Indonesia Project has its own library. Why couldn’t a future Myanmar Project have “The Selth Room”? It would require a substantial book donation, of course…
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Hi there. This is an excellent and useful reference from Dr Selth. There are a few important books that he has missed however.
A few of these are:
Ledi Sayadaw. 1915. “The Vipassana-Dipani: The Manual of Insight”.
Byles, Marie Beuzaville. 1962. “Journey Into Burmese Silence”. London: George Allen and Unwin.
There are also some recent articles published in academic journals that have been omitted- articles by Ingrid Jordt and Julianne Schober come to mind.
If anyone is interested on working on a bibliography specifically on Buddhism in Myanmar please let me know as I have a project along these lines.
My email: [email protected]
-Sophie
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How comes you guys know so many books?
Now that Andrew Selth beating season has begun, a small point needs to be made.
The opening line “old Burmese proverb”, really translates as “Wisdom is in the letters”, rather than books. As all are aware, old Burma used palm leaves and metal stencil for writing, hence circular scripts.
Short of Pagan pagoda and religious stone etchings, Burmese traditionally do not believe in long standing heritage or indelible marks. Very green!
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