This photograph taken on March 27, 2025 shows nine-year-old Donlaphat Lungta, an ethnic Shan boy getting his head shaved by a Buddhist monks on the eve of the annual Poy Sang Long procession a traditional rite of passage ceremony for young boys to be initiated as novice Buddhist monks at the Wat Ku Tao Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)
