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04 APRIL 2015 - CHIANG MAI, CHIANG MAI, THAILAND: Men help a boy get into his ceremonial outfit for the Poi Sang Long Festival at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai. The Poi Sang Long Festival (also called Poy Sang Long) is an ordination ceremony for Tai (also and commonly called Shan, though they prefer Tai) boys in the Shan State of Myanmar (Burma) and in Shan communities in western Thailand. Most Tai boys go into the monastery as novice monks at some point between the ages of seven and fourteen. This year seven boys were ordained at the Poi Sang Long ceremony at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai. Poy Song Long is Tai (Shan) for "Festival of the Jewel (or Crystal) Sons. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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04 APRIL 2015 - CHIANG MAI, CHIANG MAI, THAILAND: Men help a boy get into his ceremonial outfit for the Poi Sang Long Festival at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai. The Poi Sang Long Festival (also called Poy Sang Long) is an ordination ceremony for Tai (also and commonly called Shan, though they prefer Tai) boys in the Shan State of Myanmar (Burma) and in Shan communities in western Thailand. Most Tai boys go into the monastery as novice monks at some point between the ages of seven and fourteen. This year seven boys were ordained at the Poi Sang Long ceremony at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai. Poy Song Long is Tai (Shan) for "Festival of the Jewel (or Crystal) Sons. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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