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    Orphans like here in Bagan are welcomed in monasteries were they will receive an education. And poor families will send there one of their sons to study. Every begging bowl belongs to a monk. In Buddhist families, every boy will spend 3 months in a monastery between the age of 5 and 15. In Burma, around 2% of men are monks. In 2006, some of them confided in me it was a way to have a decent life without the risk to be requisitioned by force by the military junta for building roads, pipelines...

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    Orphans like here in Bagan are welcomed in monasteries were they will receive an education. And poor families will send there one of their sons to study. Every begging bowl belongs to a monk. In Buddhist families, every boy will spend 3 months in a monastery between the age of 5 and 15. In Burma, around 2% of men are monks. In 2006, some of them confided in me it was a way to have a decent life without the risk to be requisitioned by force by the military junta for building roads, pipelines...

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