Federation of Associations of Former International Civil Servants (2000 2003)

YANGON Religious orders of monks have been the face of Burma ever since Buddhism was introduced here more than 1,000 years ago.

The soldiers knelt down, shed tears and finally they stepped down to let the monks go, reported the witnesses from Mandalay.

DVB.no has posted news (in Burmese) about soldiers from 33 battalion allowing the monks to continue the protests in Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar.

Monks from Mandalay monasteries including those from ThaTaNa monk college marched for protest and were blocked at 42nd street by soldiers of 33 battalion.

After the truce expired in June 1410, the military religious monks were decisively defeated in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg), one of the largest battles in medieval Europe.

No boat was used during summer, only when the lake froze over in winter could monks reach the mainland or pilgrims visit the temple many of whom used to come from Tibetan areas and Mongolia.

This caloric structure partly reflected the high class status of late Medieval monasteries in England, and partly that of the Westminster Abbey, which was one of the richest monasteries in the country diets of monks in other monasteries may have been more modest.