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Study | Namshan, Myanmar

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March 26, 2011

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The white robe indicates he is not a typical novice, and likely an orphan. The usual red-robed kids participate in a novitiation ceremony and then become novice monks, while the white-robed ones study until they can become novices. Until they wear the red robes, they keep to looser rules--for example, they do not have to stop eating at noon.

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