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Shwe Nyaung Monastery outside Nyaungshwe is a teaching monastery. Most of the older novice Buddhist monks here intend to become fully fledged monks, unlike most novices who leave the monastery at 18 or thereabouts.

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Location: Shwe Nyaung Monastery, Nyaungshwe, Shan Province, Burma [Myanmar].

Photographer: © Neil Harris