Portrait of Zheng He, who lived a century after Marco Polo, was the unlikeliest of great admirals. He was born a Muslim in th...

Receiving alms (binthabat) is a ritual of daily life for the hundreds of Buddhist monks in Myanmar, where accepting charity in the form of rice, or more recently, money is prescribed in Buddhist texts.

Author: Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 24.0 Mpixels (68.7 MB uncompressed) - 6000x4000 pixels (20.0x13.3 in / 50.8x33.9 cm at 300 ppi)

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