Identifier: cu31924023077252 (find matches)
Title: Shans at home
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Mengkyaw, may eat meat when itis presented to them already cooked. A Shan fatherhas therefore a choice of several types of monasteriesto which he can send his boy when he is old enoughto go to school. Shans are divided into what might be called twocastes. All who are related, however distantly, tothe Sao-hpa,^ all who make their living by agri-culture, all silversmiths, and respectable merchantsand traders, belong to the upper caste. The lowerconsists of fishermen, butchers, all who make or sellintoxicating liquors, all who keep pigs, or who sellopium. To a certain extent the little children of bothclasses play together, but as they grow up theirintercourse becomes less, and their school life dividesthem still more. The son of a trader is educated bymonks of the Mengkyaw or Nalong order ; a fisher- Many of the Poikyaung monks smoke opium, and, for thatreason, seldom go to Mandalay or to Rangoon to worship, as theywould be despised by their Burmese brethren.—W. W. C. ^ Ruling chief.
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BUDDHIST MONK. r- 30) LESSONS AT THE MONASTERY 51 mans boy would be sent to a less strict monastery,probably to the Poikyaung, if there were any ofthese monks in the district. A boy has already learned at home how he shouldbehave at the monastery. He knows that beforeentering he should remove his shoes. This he doeseach time he enters his own home. He also knowsthat when he speaks to a monk he should remove histurban, and kneel, with head bent; the lower his headthe more polite he is. He knows that when he takesa present of food to a monk he must set it on themat beside him, and not expect that the monk shouldtake it from his hand or thank him for it. He hasalready learned that a gift is most blessed to thegiver, and one of his first lessons is that it is moreblessed to give than to receive. He should alwaysremember that in exchange for his offering he re-ceives three great gifts—the gift of happiness beforeoffering, the gift of happiness while offering, and thegift of happiness aft

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