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	A Burmese Buddhist 
	
	
	
	monk 
	holding a typical
	
	
    
	Myanmar-style fan (fig.), akin to the Thai
	
	
	
	pad bai lahn (fig.). 
	As is common with all monks in
	
	
        
		Burma, his robe is of a dark reddish brown colour (fig.) 
	and his eyebrows are not shaved off. Around his 
	neck he wears a string of beads, known in Thai as a  
	
	prakam 
	(fig.) and 
	around his wrist he has a white thread, which in 
	Thai is referred to as
			
			
			
			sai sin (fig.). |