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Laos: Alms to Monks


Wat Si Saket in its paved courtyard Vientiane Laos — photo by Basile Morin, accompanying poem "Laos: Alms to Monks"
Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Laos has seven million people,
Buddhism deeply rooted in the land.
For a thousand years it has never ceased,
Morning alms to monks' bowls.