National Geographic Photo of the Day: Buddhist Statue

August 12, 2004

Buddhist nuns tend to a Buddha statue at a temple in Thailand, where some 95 percent of the citizens are Buddhist.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Many Faces of Thailand," Febuary 1996, National Geographic magazine)

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