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当其他东南亚国家 迅速走向现代化的时刻， 缅甸是唯一还生活在象牙塔里的国家。
In Bagan, Myanmar, where roughly half of 4,000 ancient temples are still standing. 这里矗立着约2000座古塔。
A boy, his face decorated with thanaka, a paste made of tree bark and believed to give protection from the sun, by the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon.首都仰光的一个男孩。脸上涂抹着用树皮制成的白粉，据说可以防晒。
首都的蔬菜市场：笑容可掬的缅甸女子。The vegetable market in Yangon, as Rangoon is now called.
The Moustache Brothers present comedy with a political theme. 胡子兄弟表演政治喜剧。
和尚走在庙宇丛林。A monk walks through the Kekku Temple complex, south of Taunggyi.
Tourists on Taungthaman Lake at Amapura. 外来户真幸福。
渔夫。Intha fishermen on Inle Lake。
几千座庙宇建造于11和13世纪之间。Monks at Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan, home of thousands of temples built from the 11th to the 13th century.大抵相当于中国的宋朝时期。
A statue of Buddha, surrounded by 12th-century frescos in one of the many temples found on the plains of Bagan. A craftsman restoring a section of the Shwedagon Pagoda.恢复原貌归功于能工巧匠。
Monks at the Shwedagon Pagoda.和尚们似乎很幸福。 水果市场。A woman selling fresh fruit near the fish market. 小尼姑。Young Buddhist nuns in Amarapura. As the sun sets, tourists gather on the upper terrace of the Shwesandaw Pagoda for a panoramic view of the temples across the plain of Bagan.太阳落山前，游人登高鸟瞰。
In Myanmar, formerly Burma, one out of every 100 people are monks, many of them children. Students at this monastery wake up before dawn, study and practice Buddhism until night. １／１００的国民是和尚，大多为儿童。天不亮就起来了，念经打坐，一直到深夜。 One of the few monks left at Chaukhtatgyi Temple in Yangon meditated recently. Many fled monasteries there after military raids.
街上化缘越来越难了。As poverty has worsened in Myanmar, however, the alms processions have dwindled.
新和尚一般在佛教大学研究经文Novice monks study texts at a Buddhist university. 最小的和尚可能只有５岁，要一直念１７年。Some monks are as young as 5 and will attend the school for over 17 years.
A monk in his room at the university. 和尚逛商店。A monk walks through a shopping mall. 越来越多的和尚关心贫困和不公。Many young monks have grown passionate about the poverty and injustice their nation has suffered under the military government.
A sign in an airport for a monk-only section. Monks are held in high esteem in Myanmar and are understood to embody the finest values of society.和尚的社会地位高：飞机场只能和尚座的椅子。
An abbot at his monastery.
At the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. The government just ended a ban on gatherings of more than five people in the city less than a month after the military junta crushed an uprising for democracy led by the nation's revered monks.
Now, an ominous calm has settled over the country. People have quietly returned to the squalor and inflation that brought them to the streets in protest. 学习中国？
But beneath the surface, anger, uncertainty, hopelessness — and above all, fear of the junta — prevail.
The nation's economic woes, which spurred the protests, have not abated.  Despite widespread agreement among people that things should change, most seem at a loss as to how that will happen. Left, people living in the countryside fish to supplement their diet. 大家都想改革，如何改法，人们一筹莫展！
Not even the most basic aspects of life have been spared rising prices. A bowl of low-grade rice, enough to feed a family of four for a day, cost 16 kyats in 1988. It now costs 800 kyats. A 30-minute bus ride cost 100 kyats a couple months ago, but the fare has doubled. 基本生活所需也很匮乏。
Even schools have suffered as a consequence of economic hardship. At this private school, the principal provides free tuition for a number of students who could not otherwise afford an education.
At a night market in Yangon, Myanmar, people sold their wares by candlelight because of a lack of electricity.
定量供应油。In the poorest areas in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, palm oil is rationed. The capital was moved this year from Yangon to a site in the jungle, costing millions of dollars. Above, one of the poorest areas in Yangon. In one village, residents said they could afford to send their girls to school for only three years. 太穷：女孩子只能读三年书。 老辈子中国人还记得：露天电影。A movie was projected at a street cinema in Mandalay. People receive two hours of electricity a day from the government, and many rely on private generators. Teak wood is stacked for export to Thailand and China. 出口泰国，中国。 Local workers at a shrimp factory on Ramree. The factory's owner sells the shrimp to Japan. 出口日本。
Fishermen brought in the morning catch at the port in Sittwe. China's National Development Reform Commission has approved plans to build a pipeline that would carry oil from a deep water port off Sittwe across Myanmar to China.
Studying a religious script. 经书.
Burma gained independence from the British in 1948.１９４８年才从英国手下独立。
老师。A Buddhist master reading in a temple's study.
Religious monuments in Bagan, formerly Pagan, as they appeared in a 1975 photograph. Pagan was the capital of several ancient kingdoms, rivaling Angkor in Cambodia as the pre-eminent religious city in Southeast Asia. In recent years, the government of Myanmar, to the horror of foreign experts, has constructed new pagodas on old sites in Bagan, and has haphazardly restored old ones.
In Myanmar, Buddhist monks with their begging bowls are a common sight. In Yangon, the capital, they make daily rounds for alms. 要饭的人列队。
In Yangon, formerly Rangoon, monks browse a table of tools at a roadside stall.
In Kyaing Tong, in eastern Myanmar, monks and young novices leaving a temple to collect offerings.
Monks are far from being isolated from the larger society in Myanmar. In Mandalay, they read Buddhist Web sites at an Internet cafe. But they don't have Hotmail; the government strictly controls the Web.
The Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon during the full-moon festival last March. It is the most important Buddhist temple in Myanmar and has been called the greatest pagoda of its kind in the world.最伟大的佛塔。
Burmese lighting candles for good luck at the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon at the festival on March 2.
Worshipers praying at the Shwedagon at the same March festival. After Bhutan, Myanmar may be the most Buddhist nation in the world.
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Inle Lake - Myanmar (Burma)
