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Abbas - MYANMAR
MYANMAR. Yangon. A nat ( spirit) set up in a tree for worship.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Nude plastic models in a shop.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Paya SHWEDAGON. Pilgrims pray and make offerings to the Buddha.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Paya SHWEDAGON. A monk stares for hours into the strong morning sun... an exercise in futility if ever there was one.
MYANMAR. Yangon. NAGALANGU monastery. Young nuns attend to their daily chores, shaving head, washing clothes.
MYANMAR. Yangon. BUTATAUNG monastery. Young novices play rattan football in the courtyard.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Novices wash and shave head in a monastery around Paya CHAUK TAT GYI.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Two monks watch a man sculpt a hindu-like deity in wood.
MYANMAR. Yangon. Life by the Yangon river.
MYANMAR. Yangon. A woman in transe during a ritual to honor the deity SHIN UO PAGOAT TA by the Yangon river.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. An artesan ventilates laque boxes to dry them.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. A monk in the Kyaung SHWE INBIN monastery.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monk an novice students. Monks study under a tree.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Street scene with monks and motorbike, early morning.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. A monks prays to the hairless statue of Buddha in the BYAR DEIK PAYE pagoda set on the Mandalay Hill.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Workshops set around Paya MAHAMUNI produce stone and marble statues of Buddha. A man sleeps under one.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Paya MAHAMUNI. Pilgrims, including a novice, touch different part of bronze Khmer sculptures, hoping pain will disappear from the same part o
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Workshops set around Paya MAHAMUNI produce stone and marble statues of Buddha.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. BA THEIN LAY village. To become a novice, a young man is dressed like an ancient Burmese prince, a ritual which commemorates Prince Gaut
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Workshops set around Paya MAHAMUNI produce stone and marble statues of Buddha.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. A man has his hair shaved by a monk in a ritual to become novice in the BA THEIN LAY village.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monks and novice students. Monks attend class, lying on the
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monks and novice students. Monks attend class, lying on the
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monk an novice students. A monk reads.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monk an novice students. Monks and novices carry stones to
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monks and novice students. Monks and novices covered with m
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn, monks overload a minibus, on their way to beg for alms.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn a monk goes begging for alms.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn, monks go begging for alms.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. The Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery is the largest in the country with over 3 200 monks and novice students. Monks and novices covered with m
MYANMAR. Mandalay. A pig is tied up on a rickshaw to be taken away.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn, monks and novices queue up for alms near the central market.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Wood logs float on a section of the river IRRAWADDY.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn, monks and novices queue up for alms near the central market.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. At dawn a monk goes begging for alms.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Young nuns attend class while novices and a boy fool around in a school run by the AUNG MYEE OO monastery.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. In the afternoon, novices study sacred texts in the SHWE GU monastery.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. In the HLOANG GYU monastery, a monk studies sacred texts by the shadow of a satellite dish.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. In the afternoon, a novice studies sacred texts in the SHWE GU monastery.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Novices of the SHWE GU monatery look at their own photos in a digital camera.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Young nuns chop wood to be used as kitchen fuel in their convent.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Young nuns read aloud from sacred texts in the ZAY YAR PA LAUNG orphanage.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Monks queue up to be given rice by pilgrims who have come from all over the lake to celebrate the founding of the SHWE GU
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. A headless Buddha among the ruins of Paya AUNG MIN GALAR in the village of Ywama.
MYANMAR. Bagan. In the temple Pahto DHAMAYA YANYI, a seated Buddha known as the Chinese.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. In the market, a woman weighs vegetables with an old hand-held scale. She wears thanaka paste on her cheeks.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. Young women eat in a foodstall. The one in the foreground wear thanaka paste on her cheeks.
MYANMAR. Bagan. A peasant carries squash collected from his field on an ox-driven cart. He passes by centuries old stupas.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. Buddhist monks board a horse cart.
MYANMAR. Bagan. A woman takes an afternoon bath and washes her hair in the IRRAWADDY river.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Two young novices take the food they have been given by the people of the MIN NANTHU village to the KYAT KAN monastery.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Young novices in the KYAT KAN monastery.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Shadows and a passing boy in the MIN NANTHU village.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Peasant women collect squash from a field set around centuries old pagodas and stupas.
MYANMAR. Bagan. A woman worships a nat (deity) set in small temple by the gates of OLD BAGAN.
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. They are dressed like ancient Burme
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. They are dressed like ancient Burme
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. Villagers, carrying gifts and flowe
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. Villagers, carrying gifts and flowe
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. Dressed like an ancient Burmese pr
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. Dressed like ancient Burmese prince
MYANMAR. Near Bagan. Sin Lui village. Noviciat rituals for young boys. Villagers take a procession of woul
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys (standing) are dressed and made up as ancient Burmese p
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual for a boy dressed and made up as an ancient
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual for a boy dressed and made up as an ancient
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual. Young women, dressed and made up, act as ho
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual. Men, dressed in traditional formal Myanmar
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. While boys become novices, girls participate in a similar ri
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual. Noviciat ritual for boys dressed and made
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Kyaiktiyo. Pilgrimage to the Golden Rock. The Rock at sunset.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery celebrates its founding. Monks and novices are giv
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Buddhist nuns by afternoon light in a pagoda.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Kyaiktiyo. Pilgrimage to the Golden Rock. At dawn, a woman prays to the Buddha and to a nat (spir
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. KAN GYI monastery. The dormitory.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. Buddhist monks on a horse cart.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. The paya YATANA LOBAMUNI pagoda houses three sacred boas. A guardian of the pagoda
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery. Novices study Buddhist texts by afternoon light.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Paya MAHAMUNI pagoda. Pilgrims touch different parts of bronze Khmer sculptures, hoping
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Noviciat ritual. A boy, his head shaved is about to become a
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Buddhist convent next to the SHWE GU monastery. Novice nuns read sac
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery. Novices study Buddhist texts by afternoon light.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Two girls who participate in the ritual of "piercing of the
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. A girl who participates in the ritual of "piercing of the ea
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. A girl who participates in the ritual of "piercing of the ea
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery celebrates its founding. Nuns queue up with bucket
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery celebrates its founding. Nuns are to be given the
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Buddhist nuns carry eggs from te market.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Buddhist convent by the SHWE GU monastery. Novice nuns chop wood to
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery. Novices study Buddhist texts by afternoon light.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Buddhist nuns on a walk with sunbrellas.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. The SHWE KYIN monastery. Novices take off their robes to bathe.
MYANMAR. Yangon. The NAGALANGU monastery. Buddhist nuns clean up the monastery grounds.
MYANMAR. Yangon. SHWEDAGON, the most sacred pagoda in the country. A Buddhist nun makes an offering of flo
MYANMAR. Bagan. A nat ( deity spirit ) is worshipped in the sanctuary set in the gates of Old Bagan.
MYANMAR. Bagan. Patho HTILO MINLO. Artesans offer hand painted artifacts to foreign tourists.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. KAN GYI monastery. The refectory is pepared for lunch.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys, their head newly shaved and dressed in monk's robes, f
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys, their head shaved, are given monk's robes to become no
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys, their head shaved, are given monk's robes to become no
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. While boys become novices, girls participate in a similar ri
MYANMAR. Yangon. The NAGALANGU monastery. Novices pass on bricks to a building site.
MYANMAR. Kyaiktiyo. A Buddhist monk with a cellphone.
MYANMAR. Bagan. By sunrise, peasants pass by ancient stupas and pagodas on their way to work in their fiel
MYANMAR. Mandalay. AH NI GAZ covent. A Buddhist nun studies religious texts.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. An apple on a Buddhist novice's begging bowl.
MYANMAR. Yangon. SHWEDAGON, the most sacred pagoda in the country. A woman pilgrim, dressed in religious r
MYANMAR. Kyaiktiyo. Pilgrimage to the Golden Rock. A Buddhist monk prays.
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Around the Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery. At dawn, young monks and novices go begging
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery, the largest in the country with over 3 200 students. M
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery, the largest in the country with over 3 200 students. M
MYANMAR. Bagan. Minkaba village. At dawn monks and novices are offered cooked rice by the villagers.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. KAN GYI monastery.
MYANMAR. Mount POPA. Nats ( spirit deities ) are worshipped next to the Buddha in their sanctuary.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. Buddhist convent next to the SHWE GU monastery.
MYANMAR. Amarapura. By lake TAUNG THAMAN, Buddhist novices, their robes lifted up, play a football match v
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. KAN GYI monastery. The dormitory.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. KAN GYI monastery. The dormitory. A novice reads under posters.
MYANMAR. Inle Lake. Nyaung Shwe town. SHWE GU monastery. Novices study Buddhist texts by afternoon light.
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys, their head shaved and dressed in monk's robes, attend
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. The paya YATANA LOBAMUNI pagoda houses three sacred boas which are bathed and fed
MYANMAR. Near Mandalay. Ba Thein Lay village. Boys, their head shaved and dressed in monk's robes, pray as
MYANMAR. Mandalay. Kyaung MA SOE YEIN NU monastery, the largest in the country with over 3 200 students. Y
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