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a monk walking along a corridor in Myanmar
December 14, 2015

Staircase of Light

While visiting a temple in Myanmar, Joe Leung caught this moment of reflection. “While we were waiting to enter the temple, a monk walked slowly toward the temple,” the Your Shot member writes. “Suddenly, he looked back to us. I instantly felt that he seems to be looking back at his life.”

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Photograph by Joe Leung, National Geographic Your Shot

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