> Flowers in their hair: Shan boys ordained into Buddhist monkhood / 39MY6NR
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Flowers in their hair: Shan boys ordained into Buddhist monkhood / 39MY6NR
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Dressed in flowers, finery, and makeup, scores of boys were paraded in the traditional "Poy Sang Long" ceremony around a temple in northern Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to the centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination to become Buddist novices. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES