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

BANGKOK: The acting abbot of Wat Chiang Mun in Chiang Mai found himself in the middle ... was not quite in line with the sanctity of a Buddhist temple. The acting abbot asserted that this would ...

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 ...

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.