The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar’s Shan people enter monastic life for up ...

The temple is privately owned and we saw limited presence of monks, unlike the “working” temples we visited in Chiang Mai. It is owned ... on what to wear to a Buddhist temple.

Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand before having their heads ...

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The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan ... they were carried around the Ku Tao temple in Chiang Mai three times on relatives' shoulders, to the rhythmic beat of traditional gongs.

Chiang Mai (Thailand) (AFP) – Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries ...