You might be wondering how it is that the Buddhist monks in Burma are able to participate in anti government protests. Here is how.
On Sept. 18, monks in Mogok, upper Burma, gathered together at the Aungchanthar Monastery to decide whether or not to overturn their alms bowls: to declare a formal boycott of the country’s military regime, together with the rest of the Buddhist order — the Sangha — in response to a brutal attack on a group of their peers early in the month. Burma's Saffron Revolution
