“Myanmar monks are quite isolated and have a thin relationship with Buddhists in other parts of the world”

21 June 2013 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/world/asia/extremism-rises-among-myanmar-buddhists-wary-of-muslim-minority.html

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