Myanmar's former president leaves office, joins monkhood

Myanmar's former president leaves office, joins monkhood: "YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood.

Thein Sein's ordination as a monk took place Monday, officials said, four days after he presided over a historic transition of power to the former opposition party headed by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Photographs circulating on social media show the former president, with his head shaved and dressed in a saffron robe, beside a fellow monk."



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