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Buddhist
Nun,
Cambodia
"A Buddhist Nun in Bayon Temple"
©2001
Elroy Christenson
This Buddhist nun tends an altar in the Bayon Temple complex
for
tourists. Various nuns have set up altars here. They are
typically
widows who are providing pray services to visitors besides
gaining a
few coins that support them or their temple nearby. In
Buddhism, women
can become nuns at any age and widows who have raised their
families
are likely candidates due to lack of family or social
support and
accompanying poverty.
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