Monks of New York
May 13th 2010 23:07
Dozens of Burmese monks have been forced to swap their saffron-colored robes for blue-collar workwear and abandon their monkhood out of a need to scratch out a living in their adopted land.
Forty-seven-year-old Burmese monk U Pyinya Zawta, leader of the "All Burma Monks Alliance" stands in the stairwell of the makeshift monastery he shares with three others in a small rundown apartment house in the economically depressed upstate New York city of Utica April 27, 2010.
Credit: REUTERS/Mike Segar
The link will take you to the monks in their saffron robes, to their makeshift monastery and to the lifestyle they lead in New York
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