Throughout his career, he published many works on Mon ethnography, including the best-seller The Struggle of Rajadhiraj.
[1][2] Pan Hla was born in March 1923 in Kawkareik Township, British Burma to Nai Jawt and Mi Cho.
[1][2] He earned bachelors, law, and doctorate degrees from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles.
[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.
[3] He died on 18 June 2010 in Yangon after suffering a paralytic stroke.