Morning Alms Rounds in Tachileik | Jack Kurtz: Photojournalist & Travel Photographer

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26 APRIL 2014 - TACHILEIK, SHAN STATE, MYANMAR: Buddhist nuns go out on their alms rounds in the morning in Tachileik, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). There are about 75,000 Burmese women living as nuns, sometimes called "Bhikkhuni" although the term has fallen out of favor since Bhikkhuni are no longer ordained. Many of the women who become nuns to so to escape poverty or abuse. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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26 APRIL 2014 - TACHILEIK, SHAN STATE, MYANMAR: Buddhist nuns go out on their alms rounds in the morning in Tachileik, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). There are about 75,000 Burmese women living as nuns, sometimes called "Bhikkhuni" although the term has fallen out of favor since Bhikkhuni are no longer ordained. Many of the women who become nuns to so to escape poverty or abuse. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ