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![Workers at the U Ba Nyein lacquer shop in Bagan. Here, lacquerware is prepared as it has been for centuries. A varnish made o...](http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/88782801-52a8-47c4-8318-e76a023ceeed/Ym_130429_6809_xgaplus.jpg)
![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)
Two boys in princely attire at a shinpyu ceremony. Every Buddhist male from around the age of five to 19 has to enter the monastery as a novice once in their lifetime. The ceremony follows a well-known legend in which the Buddha himself stripped his son of garish attire, replaced the boy's clothing with monk's robes and guided him towards a monastic life of detachment. This was how the Buddha, who had renounced his own royal titles, met his own child's request for a princely inheritance.
Author: Michael Yamashita
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