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Nai Pan Hla (Burmese: နိုင်ပန်းလှ, Mon: နာဲပါန်လှ; 1923 – 18 June 2010) was a Burmese historian and cultural anthropologist of Mon descent. Throughout his career, he published many works on Mon ethnography, including the best-seller The Struggle of Rajadhiraj.[1][2]
In 1953, he joined the Ministry of Culture's archaeological department, serving as an official of Mon literature and culture.[2] He published the best-seller Struggle of Rajadhiraj, about Razadarit, in 1977.[2]
In 1992, he published Eleven Mon Dhammasattha Texts.[3] In 1994, he became a professor at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, where he taught Southeast Asian literature and history, and returned to Myanmar in 1998.[2][1] He published A Short Mon History in 2013.[3]
Death
He died on 18 June 2010 in Yangon after suffering a paralytic stroke.[1]
