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  • A freshly painted Buddha standing 26 meters tall in the Gandin Hid Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It's full name is Gandantegchinlen; built in 1840, and one of the largest and most important in Mongolia. It was not destroyed in the religious purge of 1937 however. An agent of the Mongolia KGB was installed as head monk in 1980 where he stayed until religious freedom was granted in Mongolia in 1990. Mongols visit the monastery where a full complement of monks studies and worships.
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  • The head and upper body of a freshly painted Buddha standing 26 meters tall in the Gandin Hid Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It's full name is Gandantegchinlen; built in 1840, and one of the largest and most important in Mongolia. It was not destroyed in the religious purge of 1937 however. An agent of the Mongolia KGB was installed as head monk in 1980 where he stayed until religious freedom was granted in Mongolia in 1990. Mongols visit the monastery where a full complement of monks studies and worships.
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  • The head monk at his partially rebuilt monastery with his typical day's worth of food in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 4,900 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 158 pounds.
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  • A visiting monk reads Buddhist scripts during a house blessing of Namgay and Nalim's house. Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Wat Xiengthong, Luang Prabang, Laos. Monk leaving offering.
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  • Wat Xiengthong, Luang Prabang, Laos. Monk leaving offering.
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  • Young monk at a temple near Jinghong in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • The head monk extends his tongue to greet visitors at the reconstructed monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.) An extended tongue is a common greeting that indicates respect. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Bhddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_110318_064_x.jpg
  • Buddhist ceremony after the cremation ceremony with relatives and monks in the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_757_x.jpg
  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_110318_106_x.jpg
  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_110318_085_x.jpg
  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. Because Laos has a Communist government, many people fly both Laotian flags and Communist party flags outside their homes.
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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_110318_036_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_368_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_742_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_519_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_457_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_438_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_323_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_319_x.jpg
  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
    TIB_060621_211_xw.jpg
  • Monks blow horns as they prepare for prayer on a mountain above a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Two monks speak outside the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_778_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_738_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_481_x.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_404_x.jpg
  • Monks blow horns as they prepare for prayer outside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
    TIB_060621_222_xw.jpg
  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
    TIB_060621_195_xw.jpg
  • Monks walk towards a partially rebuilt monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
    TIB_060621_148_xw.jpg
  • Monks speak outside the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
    TIB_060616_206_xw.jpg
  • Laotian cremation ceremony at Luang Prabang's central crematorium in Ban Vieng Mai for Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang who died of a stroke. Before and after the cremation, his family gathered in the family home with relatives and monks from their Buddhist temple in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110317_420_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120129_033_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120124_029_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_084_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_062_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Evening chanting by monks and novices at the Buddhist Temple, Wat Pak Khan.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Evening chanting by monks and novices at the Buddhist Temple, Wat Pak Khan.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120129_001_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120127_076_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120124_015_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120124_003_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_943_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_022_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_019_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_015_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_013_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_006_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_003_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_101_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_099_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_098_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_096_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_094_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_088_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_081_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_079_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_074_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_057_x.jpg
  • Three monks chant and read holy Buddhist scripts outside their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sculpted figurines, called tormas, are offerings made of tsampa (barley flour) and butter.
    TIB_060621_046_xxw.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks recite from holy scripts and chant during devotional practice at their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • At the Shingkhey village temple in Bhutan, a two-day ceremony is held every year to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. The drum in the center of the room beats with a deep, resonant, almost ringing sound. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 78.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
    LAO_120123_939_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_076_x.jpg
  • As happens in every Bhutanese village each year, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Ban Phan Luang Buddhist Temple at dawn during their annual celebration. Across the Nam Khan river from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke. His wife is in white in the center of the photo.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_166_x.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Chato Namgay in Shingkhey, Bhutan standing with a lamp inside the prayer room of his family's house. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_216_x.jpg
  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_189_x.jpg
  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
    LAO_110317_125_x.jpg
  • Funeral of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, at home in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, Laos, and then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai. The propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang died of a stroke.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). As part of the celebration that marks the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, Chato Namgay (in red robe) lights the ritual butter lamps on an altar below the transformer on the power pole. Above a photo of the king, a sign reads: "Release of Power Supply to Rural Households Under Wangdi Phodrang Dzon Khag to Commemorate Coronation Silver Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • A local priest at a temple in Belur, South India.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • The caretaker of the Shingkhey village Buddhist temple blows a conch shell at the temple window at nightfall, a ritual to ward off evil spirits in the village. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Peter Menzel photographs Tokyo-based photographer Vincent Huang who used the giant Burning Man structure and revelers as a backdrop for his photographs of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with performance artist Ken Hamazaki for a Japanese magazine. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Bamboo bridge across the Nam Khan River, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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