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{{Infobox book
| name = Sāsana Vaṃsa
| title_orig = {{lang|my|သာသနာဝင်}} <br /> Thathanawin
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| author = Paññāsāmi
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| country = [[Konbaung Dynasty|Kingdom of Burma]]
| language = [[Burmese language|Burmese]]
| series = [[Burmese chronicles]]
| genre = [[Chronicle]], [[Buddhist texts|Buddhist literature]]
| publisher = King [[Mindon Min|Mindon]]
| release_date = 1861
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The '''{{IAST|Sāsana Vaṃsa}}''' or '''''Thathanawin''''' ({{lang-my|သာသနာဝင်}}, {{IPA-my|θàðənà wɪ̀ɰ̃|pron}}) is a history of the [[Buddhism in Burma|Buddhist order in Burma]], composed by the Burmese monk Paññāsāmi in 1861.<ref name=rb>Bischoff 1995</ref><ref name=mat-2005-145>Aung-Thwin 2005: 145</ref> It is written in [[Pāli|Pali]] prose, and based on earlier documents in Pali and [[Burmese language|Burmese]], still extant, but which had not been edited at the end of the nineteenth century.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|wstitle=Sāsana Vaṃsa|volume=24|page=225|first=Thomas William Rhys|last=Davids|inline=1}}</ref>

The earlier part of the work deals with the history of Buddhism outside of Burma. This is based on the [[Mahavamsa]], and other well-known [[Sri Lanka]]n works, and has no independent value. The latter part of the work, about three-fifths of the whole, deals with Buddhism in Burma, and contains information not obtainable elsewhere. Up to the 11th century the ''Sasana Vamsa'' is mythical or legendary. After that date it is sober, intelligible and in all probability accurate. This portion occupies about one hundred pages (eight volumes) in the excellent edition of the text prepared by the [[Pali Text Society]] in 1897 by Dr. [[Mabel Haynes Bode|Mabel Bode]]. It shows a continuous literary effort through the eight and a half centuries, and constantly renewed ecclesiastical controversy. The latter is concerned for the most part with minor questions relating to rules of the order, there being a tendency, as relaxations of the rules crept in with the lapse of time, to hark back to the original simplicity. Of differences in matters of doctrine there is no mention in this manual. Dr Bode has prefixed to her edition a detailed summary of the contents of the book.<ref name=EB1911/>

The [[Dhammikarama Burmese Temple|Dhammikarama Temple]] in [[Penang, Malaysia]] contains a ''Sasana Vamsa Sima Shrine Hall'' in honour of Bode's work.

N. R. Ray used Bode's edited Pali text as the main source for his 1946 ''Introduction to the Study of Theravāda Buddhism in Burma''. B. C. Law in 1952 produced for the Pali Text Society an English translation of the ''Sāsanavaṃsa''.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lieberman, Victor B.|title=A New Look at the Sāsanavaṃsa|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|year=1976|volume=39|issue=1|pages=137–149|jstor=616191|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00052150}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book | last=Aung-Thwin | first=Michael A. | title=The Mists of Rāmañña: The Legend that was Lower Burma | edition=illustrated | publisher=University of Hawai'i Press | year=2005 | location=Honolulu | isbn=9780824828868}}
* {{cite book | last=Bischoff | first=Roger | title=Buddhism in Myanmar-A Short History | url=http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/bud-myanmar.pdf | format=PDF | year=1995 | publisher=Buddhist Publication Society |isbn=955-24-0127-5}}
* {{cite book | last=Charney | first=Michael W. | title=Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752–1885 | location=Ann Arbor | publisher=University of Michigan | date=2006}}
* Romanised Pali: Bode, Mable; ''Sāsanavaṃsa;'' 1897 ([[Pali Text Society]]), reprint 1996
* Engl.: ''History of the Buddha's religion (Sāsanavaṃsa);'' London 1952



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