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Burma From the Inside, Looking Out { 30 images } Created 10 Jun 2017

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  • — The most sacred Buddhist site in all of Myanmar, the Shwedagon Temple, is more than 2500 years old. In 2007, it became the site of violent clashes between military forces and protesting monks defying the junta's ban on public assembly as they tried to enter the temple to worship.
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  • — More than 160 ethnic groups live within the political borders of modern Myanmar. Each group expressing its own ethnic identity, customs, religion and language.
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  • — A Padaung woman, of the Red Karen people, weaves a traditional garment on a hand loom. The Padaung women and young girls work for a Shan owner; they weave as well as pose for the tourists visiting Inle Lake. The Shan are the largest ethnic group in the region, also the richest from exploiting the smaller ethnic minorities, treating them like slaves.
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  • — Even in Buddhism, women are not equal. According to the governing council of Buddhism in Myanmar, there can be no valid ordination of women because the nun (bhikkhuni) lineage has died out. For these women, the only monastic option is becoming a thilashin (renunciate), taking limited vows and following the teachings of Buddha without official endorsement.
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  • — In the early morning, fishermen ply the waters of Inle Lake, looking for favorable spots to fish.
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  • — Once a  popular hill station during the British colonial period, Kalaw is a small town surrounded by rugged mountain scenery and a variety of distinct ethnic minority groups. On market days, tribal people descend to the town to sell their goods and purchase products not available in their home villages.
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  • — A young Pao girl rests at the temple on her way from the market to her village.
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  • — Stilt houses and floating fields line the waterways of Ywama village on Inle Lake. The Intha people grow everything from vegetables to flowers on these fiellds.
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  • — In Myanmar, over 160 ethnic minority groups live  side by side. The Bamar (Burmese) people comprise the largest group, and the Shan, the second largest.
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  • — At midday, monks travel by boat taxi to another Wat (temple).
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  • — King Anawrahta began a building program in 1057 CE that created over 4,000 stupas and temples covering the plain of Bagan, which extends south of the Ayeyarwady River for 40 square kilometers. Within the shadows of this once important religious and cultural center and beside monuments like the Ananda Temple, farmers and herders still use the land to eke out a subsistence living.
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  • — A monk recites Buddhist texts for students to repeat and memorize.
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  • — Monks collecting firewood and transporting it to their living quarters.
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  • — Ton Ton Phyne sells luncheon food in a small stall in the open market in Nyaung-U.
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  • — Every Burmese male is expected to reside at a Buddhist monastery and participate in the monastic rituals at least twice in their life: once as a novice, between ages 10 and 20; then again for 3 months sometime after becoming an adult.
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  • — Myauk-U was once a center for one of the most powerful kingdoms in Myanmar. Theing Soe lives there, alone, in a small thatched-roof hut amidst the 15th century temple ruins.
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  • — Early morning fog from the Pathein River envelops an oarsman and his passengers as they take their goods downriver to neighboring villages.
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  • — Although most of Myanmar embraces Buddhism, some areas in the north and west also include followers of Islam. In 2012, Sittwe was the scene of xenophobic violence by Rakhine Buddhists against the Rohingya Muslims in this western region.
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  • — Although most of Myanmar embraces Buddhism, some areas in the north and west also include Muslims. In Pathein, worshippers from both religions live and work side by side, mostly in harmony, but not always.
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