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![Two boys in princely attire at a shinpyu ceremony. Every Buddhist male from around the age of five to 19 has to enter the mon...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/037d7061-fdc1-442f-8ec0-f4d7268ee9de/Ym_130429_6338_xgaplus.jpg)
![Temple spires silhouetted in sepia light point skyward in Bagan. About 2,500 temples, pagodas and monasteries - some half-rui...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/75621b92-e735-4d7a-bc0c-f66091b10be9/Ym_130429_6197_xgaplus.jpg)
Temple spires silhouetted in sepia light point skyward in Bagan. About 2,500 temples, pagodas and monasteries - some half-ruined and tiny - others still magnificent - remain from an original 10,000 erected after the eleventh-century rise of Bagan Kingdom.
Author: Michael Yamashita
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