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Word: phaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Tempest in a Begging Bowl | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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