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  • Buddhist monks
  • Buddhist monks playing a board game, Canton, Kwangtung province, China.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Cave paintings; a group of female musicians and dancers and Buddhist monks (?) of Indo-African origin. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Buddhist monk seated. Black and red chalk drawing by R. Strasser, 1926.
  • Japanese funeral customs: a Buddhist monk kneels before a coffin; mourners kneel behind him. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A man (a Buddhist monk?) sitting cross-legged wearing robes and beads and holding a bell. Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in the house of the dead man, relatives share a meal with a Buddhist monk. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: in a wooden temple outbuilding, overseen by a Buddhist monk, three attendants dressed in loincloths uncover a tub-shaped coffin to reveal the body of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: a monk ringing the bell. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: a monk ringing the bell. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Siam [Thailand]: monks and their assistants. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A Thai monk holding a fan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A Thai monk holding a fan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]: monks and their assistants. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A Chinese monk having been found with a woman has his neck pierced with a chain and is whipped by another monk when he touches his neck. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: two Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: two Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: the abbot at the Temple of five hundred gods. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: the abbot at the Temple of five hundred gods. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • Yongquan monastery, Drum Mountain, near Fuzhou, China: Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Yongquan monastery, Drum Mountain, near Fuzhou, China: Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.