Young Monks in Close Shave for Ceremony

The HeraldJuly 11, 2011

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NEWLY ordained young hill tribe Buddhist monks with lotus flowers and shaven heads walk in procession around their monastery during a mass ordination ceremony at Wat Benchamabophit, also known as the Marble temple, in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday.

The annual ceremony this year has 285 hill tribe men being ordained as monks at the temple to mark the beginning of the three- month Buddhist Lent or Khao Pansa which this year begins on July 16 and also to celebrate Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 84th birthday.

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