2-711-148 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Burmah War - Sir Frederick Roberts Meeting The Buddhist Archbishop at Mandalay', (1901). British soldier Sir Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) meets the Thathanabaing at Mandalay in Burma, (now Myanmar), c1886. The Thathanabaing of Burma served as the head of the Buddhist Sangha (order of monks) in pre-colonial Burma. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. III. - To The End of Lord Roberts's Indian Career", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]