Monks Morning Rounds in Luang Prabang | Jack Kurtz: Photojournalist & Travel Photographer

MorningTakBat

11 MARCH 2013 - LUANG PRABANG, LAOS: A woman drops a serving of sticky rice into a monk's alms bowl during the tak bat in Luang Prabang. The "Tak Bat" is a daily ritual in most of Laos (and other Theravada Buddhist countries like Thailand and Cambodia). Monks leave their temples at dawn and walk silently through the streets and people put rice and other foodstuffs into their alms bowls. Luang Prabang, in northern Laos, is particularly well known for the morning "tak bat" because of the large number temples and monks in the city. Most mornings hundreds of monks go out to collect alms from people. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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Contained in galleries: The Tak Bat in Luang Prabang - 2013, Laos (all)

11 MARCH 2013 - LUANG PRABANG, LAOS: A woman drops a serving of sticky rice into a monk's alms bowl during the tak bat in Luang Prabang. The "Tak Bat" is a daily ritual in most of Laos (and other Theravada Buddhist countries like Thailand and Cambodia). Monks leave their temples at dawn and walk silently through the streets and people put rice and other foodstuffs into their alms bowls. Luang Prabang, in northern Laos, is particularly well known for the morning "tak bat" because of the large number temples and monks in the city. Most mornings hundreds of monks go out to collect alms from people. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ