Thousands of faithful in Burma have donated 1,750 pounds of their hair in a money-raising campaign to repair the route to a sacred Buddhist pagoda.
About 30,000 women and more than 100 long-haired men from the central city of Mandalay and nearby towns have donated the hair, Kumudra magazine quoted a Buddhist monk as saying. Some of the locks measured four feet, said Shin Wayama Nanda, the chief abbot of Mandalay’s Naga monastery.
The campaign - led by the Buddhist monks overseeing the upkeep of the remote Alaungdaw Kathapha pagoda - will use proceeds from the sale of hair to repair sections of a road and build bridges leading to the popular pilgrimage site which is said to contain the remains of one of Buddha’s disciples.
