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Shaven-headed young boys wearing 3-D glasses watch a movie at SK Telecom T.um Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 24. They are among nine children who entered the temple to have an experience of monks' life for three weeks, called Little Buddha Camp, to celebrate upcoming Buddha's birthday on May 28.
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A Buddhist monk prepares sandbags to be used as flood barriers at Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, suburban Bangkok, Thailand, on October 19. Three months of heavy monsoon rains have damaged the homes and livelihoods of millions of people and forced tens of thousands to seek refuge in shelters.
See more images of the flooding on PhotoBlog and watch the video below.
As the worst flooding in decades has left large parts of Thailand underwater, authorities are working on holding back the water from the center of Bangkok. Jon Sparks of the UK's Channel 4 News reports.
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Thai soldiers (L) providing security to Buddhist monks during their daily morning alms collection in the village of Leamnok on the outskirts of Thailand's southern province of Pattani. With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guard, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand's strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple.
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A young monk holds a traditional parasol as he waits for the arrival of Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Pemayangtse monastery in Pelling in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, Dec. 15, 2010. The Dalai Lama is on an eight-day visit to Sikkim, which borders with China as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao begins his three-day visit to New Delhi.
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A Buddhist monk walks past a Hindu temple on Dec. 6, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar last month saw the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after seven years of house arrest.
To me, this photo was almost one I would consider for The Week in Pictures (TWIP, in msnbc.com speak). The reason I'm not sold is that the element with the most potential (in my opinion) - the shadows of the birds on a wire - isn't played up to its best potential in the composition. Maybe if the photographer took a couple of steps back to eliminate some of the wide angle feeling the photo gives, and let the wires move you through the frame a little more seamlessly? Or is this moment, with the peak of blue at the top balancing the red color of the photo, and the position of the walking monk the best that this moment had to give?
Photo enthusiasts, what do you think? Could this frame have been better, or am I asking too much?
Check back Thursday evening to see if the photo makes this week's edition of TWIP - which is voted on democratically by a panel of 3 editors each week, so I may be overruled. For more on the TWIP editing process, click here.
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A picture made available 25 October 2010 shows lamas playing basketball on a basketball ground built by the government some two kilometers away from the monastery in Jiuzhi county, Qinghai province, China, 23 October 2010. Five lamas of the Longge Monastery have formed a team and sometimes can have a match against local herdsmen.
Pictures on the wire of monks are mostly from more sober contexts, like meditation or political protests - this is the first I've seen of them playing basketball.
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