Every morning you can see hundreds of monks walking the streets, many carrying yellow or orange umbrellas. They stop occasionally, not to chat, but to beg their daily rice from shop owners, well-to-do visitors and just individuals ont he street. In this picture a sidewalk restauranteur literally offers this pair of teenage monks a bowl of rice apiece. (Cooked rice right out of her pot.) When their bowls are filled the monks offer a prayer with the donor and then walk on their way.) Every young man in the Thai and Cambodian Buddhist tradition spends at least some time in a monastery learning the basic principles of the religion and passing it on to others. (Sound familiar?)