Mail Online
4 April 2019
By AFP
It took the monk's followers nine months to raise the $80,000 needed for the extravagant cremation - a fortune in one of Asia's poorest countries
Thousands of devotees flocked to a mock palace of kaleidoscopic colours in Myanmar this week to dance, sing and pay their final respects at the lavish cremation of a local celebrity monk.
Abbot Kay Lar Tha was just 48 when he died last year from leukaemia in Mudon village, in the country's southeast.