Pau Cin Hau

Burmese religious leader

Pau Cin Hau is the founder and the name of a religion followed by some Tedim, Hakha in Chin state and Kale in Sagaing division in the north-western part of Myanmar.

Pau Cin Hau was born in the Tedim (Tiddim) in 1859; and lived until 1948. He started a religious movement based on the worship of a god known as "Pasian".

He also invented a script known as "Tual lai" ('local script') or "Zotuallai",[1] now called "Zotuallai". There is logographic script based alphabet.

Pau Cin Hau's religion is also known as "Laipian" ('script religion'), and Pau Cin Hau is also known as "Laipianpa" ('script religion creator').

See also

References

  1. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (1985). Let's Visit Burma. London: Burke Publishing Company.

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