Afoot and afloat in Burma . High WaterRain, rain, rain ! It seems as if it will never BUDDHIST BOYS IN THEMONASTERIES Entering the Kyaung — Begging for Food — A SadBelief — A Young Heart Touched Shwe Tha was on his way home fromthe monastery. A bright, intelligent-lookingboy about fifteen years old, he was bowingdown before a Buddhist monk when I firstnoticed him. This is not an uncommon sightin Burma, and is typical of the respect shownby people in Eastern countries to their reli-gious teachers. We were going up the river Salwin bysteam launch. When the monk reached hisvillage, I made
Afoot and afloat in Burma . High WaterRain, rain, rain ! It seems as if it will never BUDDHIST BOYS IN THEMONASTERIES Entering the Kyaung — Begging for Food — A SadBelief — A Young Heart Touched Shwe Tha was on his way home fromthe monastery. A bright, intelligent-lookingboy about fifteen years old, he was bowingdown before a Buddhist monk when I firstnoticed him. This is not an uncommon sightin Burma, and is typical of the respect shownby people in Eastern countries to their reli-gious teachers. We were going up the river Salwin bysteam launch. When the monk reached hisvillage, I made friends with the boy. Why do you worship the pongyi(monk) ? I asked, as I sat down on thedeck beside him. Thakin (sir), that is what I was taughtto do in the kyaung (monastery). Oh, so you have been to the monastery,have you? From the answer to this ques-tion I learned that Shwe Tha had left the I02 Afoot and Afloat Through Burma monastery only a short time before, and wasnow on his way to his village. It is the rule for every Buddhist boy inBurma to go to the monastery for a short
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