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  About Ramkhamhaeng University
Before the establishment of Ramkhamhaeng University in 1971, Thailand had long suffered what might be called "a crisis in the quest for higher education".
The university was granted permission to use a 300 rai (125 acre) plot of land in the eastern suburb of Bangkok as its main campus; this land once housed the International Trade Fair.
In 1999, Ramkhamhaeng University expanded its educational opportunities by forming the Institute of International Studies (IIS-RU) as a faculty for the university’s international program to satisfy the ever growing demand for international higher education.
www.iis.ru.ac.th /IIS/RU_about.htm   (289 words)

  
  Ramkhamhaeng the Great - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng) - พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช in Thai - was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai kingdom (a forerunner of the modern kingdom of Thailand) from 1277 to 1317, during its most prosperous era.
Ramkhamhaeng expanded his kingdom as far as Lampang, Phrae and Nan in the north, Phitsanulok and Vientiane in the east, Mon in the west, as far as the Gulf of Bengal in the northwest and Nakhon Si Thammarat in the south.
Ramkhamhaeng is traditionally credited with developing the Thai alphabet (Lai Sue Thai) from earlier Khmer, Mon and Burmese scripts, on the evidence of an inscription (the Ramkhamhaeng stele, now in the National Museum in Bangkok) dated to 1283 or 1292 which bears the earliest known Thai writing.
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  King Ramkhamhaeng the Great
A story describes his seduction of the wife of King Ngam Muang, the ruler of neighbouring Phayao - an event which may have helped him to form his three-way alliance with Ngam Mueang and with King Mengrai of Chiang Mai, both of whose kingdoms were to the north of Sukothai.
Ramkhamhaeng expanded his kingdom as far as Lampang, Phrae and Nan in the north, Phitsanulok and Vientiane in the east, Mon in the west, as far as the Gulf of Bengal in the northwest and Nakhon Si Thammarat in the south.
Ramkhamhaeng is traditionally credited with developing the Thai alphabet (Lai Sue Thai) from earlier Khmer, Mon and Burmese scripts, on the evidence of an inscription (the Ramkhamhaeng stele, now in the National Museum in Bangkok) dated to 1283 or 1292 which bears the earliest known Thai writing.
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 CalendarHome.com - 1280s - Calendar Encyclopedia
King Rudolph I of Germany established the Habsburg dynasty in Austria when he invested his two sons with power there.
In England, King Edward I of England completed the conquest of Wales and annexed the territory via the Statute of Rhuddlan; he also constructed a series of castles in Wales to suppress any future rebellions.
In legal reforms, King Edward I of England started the use of drawing and quartering as punishment for traitors, King Philip IV of France created the gabelle, an onerous tax on salt, and the Scottish Parliament passed laws allowing women to propose marriage to men, but only in leap years.
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 edu-monk
King Ramkhamhaeng the Great brought Buddhist monks from Nakhon Sri Thammarat in the south to propagate Ceylonese Buddhism in Sukhothai, the capital of Thailand in the north.
King Ramkhamhaeng's great inscription paints a picture of a prosperous state governed with justice and magnanimity, and with Pali Buddhism of the Sinhalese orthodox pattern as its official or state religion.
Furthermore, in the use of monesteries as centres of education, the government was not necessary to spend a great deal of budget to construct the school buildings, for the government might ask the chief abbots of the monasteries to convert "Sala" or the merit-making halls in the monasteries to school buildings.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Sukhothai kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Under King Ramkhamhaeng the Great, as he became known, who ruled for forty years, Sukhothai enjoyed a golden age of prosperity.
Ramkhamhaeng is credited with designing the Thai alphabet (traditionally dated from 1283, on the evidence of the controversial Ramkhamhaeng stele, an inscribed stone bearing the earliest known Thai writing).
Later kings found their power being gradually eroded by the kingdoms of Lannathai to the north and Ayutthaya to the south.
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 Thailand Life - History of Thailand
Under King Ramkhamhaeng the Great who ruled from 1275 to 1315, the land of Sukhothai was thriving.
Then in the 1350, a new dynasty led by King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) established a new capital at Ayutthaya, and in 1378 during the reign of King Borommaracha I, Sukhothai was subdued to become a tributary state of Ayutthaya.
On his death in 1782, the King was succeeded by King Phra Buddha Yodfah Chulaloke (Rama I) who moved the capital across the river to the present location in Bangkok as Thon Buri was too vulnerable to Burmese attack.
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Here, particularly under the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (1279-1300) was born the ideal of a paternalistic ruler alert to the needs of his people and aware of the fact that his duty was to guide them.
fter the destruction of Ayutthaya in 1767 and the brief reign of King Taksin at Thonburi, the present Chakri Dynasty of Bangkok was established in 1782.
King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) was chosen to ascend the throne at a tender age and spent his life mostly at study abroad.
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King Bhumibol said that whether Thailand becomes better or worse depends on changes within the country and that all Thais are responsible for this change.
King Bhumibol's spiritual guidance for the nation is reminiscent of the Sukhothai-era reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (1279-1317), who gave birth to the ideal of a paternalistic ruler alert to the needs of his people and aware that his duty was to guide them.
King Ramkhamhaeng is known for having had a bell hung at his palace gate.
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Here, particularly during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (1279-1317), was born the ideal of a paternalistic ruler alert to the needs of his people and aware that his duty was to guide them, a markedly different view from the divine kingship practiced by the Khmers who had previously ruled.
King Rama I, founder of the dynasty, attempted to re-create the lost Ayutthaya when he built his new capital at Bangkok ---splendid in many ways, especially the still-dazzling Grand Palace and Temple of the Emerald Buddha, but essentially medieval in outward aspects.
He brought it to Bangkok, along with a stone seat believed to have been used by King Ramkhamhaeng as a throne, and later the words of the inscription were to serve as a kind of guide to his conduct as a ruler.
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 Monarchy of Thailand-Monarchy-Ayuttaya-Chakri-Sukhothai-Thai Royalty
King Ramkhamhaeng was a son of the first Thai King, Sri-inthrathit.
HM Ramkhamhaeng the Great is described as a valiant warrior, a wise statesman, a far-sighted scholar and a brilliant diplomat.
The great Sukothai King ruled an extensive kingdom, bordering in the north on the Lanna Kingdom at Lampang.
www.guidetothailand.com /thailand-travel-information/monarchy.htm   (1152 words)

  
 Sukhothai kingdom Information
The city of Sukhothai was part of the great Khmer empire until 1238, when two Thai chieftains, Pho Khun Pha Muang and Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, declared their independence and established a Thai-ruled kingdom.
Under King Ramkhamhaeng the Great, as he is now known, Sukhothai enjoyed a golden age of prosperity.
Ramkhamhaeng is credited with designing the Thai alphabet (traditionally dated from 1283, on the evidence of the controversial Ramkhamhaeng stele, an inscribed stone allegedly bearing the earliest known Thai writing).
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 Bangkok's Independent Newspaper
Since Rattanakosin-period monarch King Mongkut (Rama IV) uncovered the stone when he was a prince in 1833, numerous theories on the origins of the stele have been presented and debated.
Pthomrerk believes that the stele was first made during King Ramkhamhaeng's reign, but further inscriptions were made in later periods, and it was completed in the period of the King Rama IV.
In his book, "King Ramkhamhaeng's Inscription: A Historical Art Analysis", Piriya, who was not available for comment, is convinced by the anomalies of the writing systems inscribed in the stone.
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It was during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great [1275-1317] that the ideal of a paternalistic ruler originated.
King Prajadhipok (Rama VII), who in any case was already thinking along such lines himself and had already drafted a constitution which had been debated in the Supreme Council of State, agreed an d thus became the first constitutional monarch.
Following the abdication of King Prajadhipok, there was a period of nearly 20 years when the King was a remote personage to the vast majority of Thais, a face in a photograph or a name on an official proclamation.
www.mahidol.ac.th /thailand/monarchy.html   (2519 words)

  
 King ramkhamhaeng the great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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She served in the court of King Lithai, the grandson of King Ramkhamhaeng The Great.
While his grandfather King Ramkhamhaeng was held as the inventor of the Thai written characters, King Lithai wrote Trai Phum Phra Ruang or ''Sermon on the Three Worlds''.
King Lithai's ''Three Worlds'' do not represent the earthly, the infernal or the heavenly spheres, but account for the three Buddhist forms of existence of the sentient world.
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 Sukhothai Travel Information & Sukhothai Travel Guide - Phra Mae Ya Shrine, The Sukhothai Historical Park, Wat Si ...
King Ramkhamhaeng opened direct political relations with China and made two trips to China - the first in 1282 to visit the Emperor Kublai Khan and the second in 1300 after Kublai Khan's death.
A major achievement of King Ramkhamhaeng was the revision of various forms of Khmer alphabets into a system suitable for the writing of Thai words.
Situated on the north of Wat Mahathat is the King Ramkhamhaeng Monument.
www.hotelthailand.com /travelinfo/north/sukhothai.html   (3730 words)

  
 Thailand About Historical Settings - Sukhothai :: ThailandGateway.Com
Si Inthrathit's son and successor was King Ramkhamhaeng, undoubtedly the most famous and dynamic monarch ever to rule the Sukhothai kingdom.
King Si Inthrathit and King Ramkhamhaeng were both warrior kings and extended their territories far and wide.
In 1378, the Ayutthaya King Borommaracha I subdued Sukhothai's frontier city of Chakangrao [Kamphaengphet], and henceforth Sukhothai became a tributary state of Ayutthaya.
www.thailandgateway.com /about_thailand/sukhotha.html   (1175 words)

  
 Thailand The Sukothai Period - eThailand - Thailand's Leading Business Portal
King Ramkamhaeng was an absolute monarch who organized the government of the country along military lines.
He was himself the head of the army and all the governors and officials in the cities and towns served under him, in diminishing ranks.
King Ramkamhaeng created in 1283 the first Thai alphabet so that it was a symbol of the nation's independence.
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 thaiso.com | thailand | a to z | history
King Ramkhamhaeng the Great led Sukhothai to wealth, power, religion and the arts and extended Siam's territory into its neighbouring countries.
In 1688 the King's chief minister, a Greek was accused of treason and shortly after all foreigners were expelled from the Kingdom.
King Bhumipol Adulyadej is King Rama IX and the present king of the Chakri Dynasty.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sukhothai Kingdom
The city of Sukhothai was part of the great Khmer empire until 1238, when two Thai chieftains, Pho Khun Pha Muang and Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, declared their independence and established a Thai-ruled kingdom.
Ramkhamhaeng is credited with designing the Thai alphabet (traditionally dated from 1283, on the evidence of the controversial Ramkhamhaeng stele, an inscribed stone allegedly bearing the earliest known Thai writing).
In 1412 Ayutthaya installed a chief resident, and King Thammaracha IV was installed on the throne by Ayutthaya.
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 simply-thai.com-King Ramkhamhaeng The Great
King Ramkhamhaeng, a son of King Sri-inthrathit, is the most famous and dynamic monarch ever to rule the Sukhothai kingdom.
King Ramkamhaeng created in 1283 the first Thai alphabet so that it was a symbol of the nation's independence.
King Ramkhamhaeng was a paternalistic and benevolent king.
www.simply-thai.com /Thailand_History_King_Ramkamhaeng_the_Great.htm   (387 words)

  
 A Brief Outline of The History of Thailand - King Rama V The Great - Business
King Taksin was murdered and his senior army general Tongduang took over leadership of the country and he became Cha Phya Chakri or King Rama 1 the first King of the current Chakri dynasty in 1782.
King Chulalongkorn, Rama 5, is revered today as a great monarch and his passing away on 23rd October is a national holiday.
In 1946 King Ananda Mahidol was found shot dead in still unsolved mystery circumstances at his palace and Pridi was overthrown and fled the country in 1947.
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 Sukhothai, the dawn of happiness - Thailand
There was not a great deal of connection between city-states until, during the middle of the 13th century, two Thai princes in the Sukhothai area, Phor Khun Pha Muang of Muang Rad and Phor Khun Bang Klang Thao of Muang Banyang decided to combine forces to stand against the Angkorian influence.
One of Thailand's greatest warriors, Phor Khun Ramkhamhaeng ascended the throne in 1278 and made Sukhothai a powerful and extensive kingdom which extended its influence over an area stretching from Laos in the north, to the Andaman Sea in the west and south to the Malay Peninsula.
King Ramkhamhaeng embarked on direct political relations with China and made two trips to China - the first in 1282 to visit the Emperor Kublai Khan and the second in 1300 after Kublai Khan's death.
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 Ramkhamhaeng the Great
Ramkhamhaeng is considered to be one of the greatest of all Kings of Thai history.
It was under Ramkhamhaeng that the city became the vibrant and glorious centre it was later to be.
This form of birth was considered suitable for one of his great stature and renown.
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 Destination Guide : General Information in Sukhothai
King Ramkhamhaeng opened direct political relations with China and made two trips to China - the first in 1282 to visit Emperor Kublai Khan and the second in 1300 after Kublai Khans death.
A major achievement of King Ramkhamhaeng was the revision of various forms of Khmer alphabets into a system suitable for the writing of Thai words.
King Ramkhamhaeng also promoted religion and culture, and through his efforts, Buddhism progressed among the people.
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 Google Earth Hacks Forums - View Single Post - Ramkhamhang University, BKK discussion
History of RU King Ramkhamhaeng the Great, the third king of the Sukhothai period, is renowned for his invention of the Thai alphabet.
Before the establishment of Ramkhamhaeng University in 1971,Thailand has long suffered what might be called “a crisis in the quest for higher education“ because the number of high school graduates seeking seats to the universities outnumbered the admission capacity of all universities combined.
The problem finally prompted the parliament to pass a law authorizing the establishment of Ramkhamhaeng University (named after King Ramkhamhaeng the great, who invented the Thai alphabet), or RU as it is commonly known.....the country's first open-admission university.
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