” The following images are among the best entries received so far in the Travel Portraits category of the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
Boy Monk with Gun
Photo and caption by Joyce Le Mesurier/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
At the annual Ananda Harvest Festival in Bagan, Myanmar, thousands of monks from all over Myanmar came to receive alms. While walking around the vast temple grounds, I chanced upon this boy monk who was playing with his toy gun. Even though it was only a toy gun, I found this image a disturbing juxtaposition of the peace that Buddhism embodies and the violence that guns symbolise.
Photographers are being invited to enter the contest, which ends June 30.
See the images on the National Geographic website
See recent entrants on the National Geographic website “
According to the source, this is a young monk with a toy gun, not the leader of some anti-Muslim group of Buddhists.
Fake or not, it IS true that you cannot sleep next to a mad dog , but I think we need a little more confirmation on this. The picture with added caption is on about eight sites now.
I don’t think that is a boy and that is not a toy gun.
That is a serious man in his late 20’s or early 30’s and I get that he means exactly what he said.
Look at his feet. Look at his forearm that you can see.... not a child. Look again at his face. There is life lived there.