p. 102

99

...there are no good pictures to be had. The Buddhist priests shave the head and wear yellow robes. They must beg their food once a day and altho now the food is provided for many by devotees, yet a procession of them with begging bowls may be seen in the native quarter any day about 11:30. They may not receive money - only money. I never saw one with a holy or spiritual face. They are nearest Nirvana and hope to escape some incarnations by living lives of prenumeration. I think they have a good time with nothing to do - I should certainly renounce clothes and hair if I lived in Burmah. There are nuns too and as they have shaved head and wear the same garment, one cannot be distinguished except by the color of the robe which is lighter yellow. I wanted to abscond with our young, pretty one with begging bowl on her head.
(See postals 98-99) As we did not go to Mandelay I got some postals of some...