A Study of Myanmar Palaces(AD.1102-1859)

This paper is a study on the royal palace construction of King Htilaing’s palace, Inwa palace, Hanthawady palace,King Nyaungyan’s palace,Thalun’s palace,King Badon’s palace and King Mindon palace. In doing research, the comparative study is used to present that the fluctuation of Myanmar king's political power was related to the construction of new royal cities and royal palace. This paper could aid partially to observers for traditional customs of Myanmar palace. It is pointed out that powerful king used to construct new royal palaces. Myanmar Kings believed in Buddha Sasana and they accepted their royal palace as the center of the universe. These kings also constructed their royal cities and royal palace to be the same as the city of Sakkyawate Kings as much as they could. Myanmar Kings built the royal cities and palaces to reform the central administration to be stronger and to be better. The fluctuation of Myanmar king's political powers was related to the construction of new royal cities and royal palace. In particular, the powerful King only used to construct new royal cities and palaces