http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/30587 Doun Chees, as they are called in Khmer, are the Buddhist nuns living in the wats (monasteries) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. They are usually elderly widows, who observe eight or ten Buddhist precepts. They wear white robes and shave their hair and eyebrows. Their daily chores range from cooking meals for the monks, cleaning the area around the pagoda and practicing the dharma. They have earned respect in society over the years and play a significant role in community development. The local people invite the nuns to participate in funerals and other religious ceremonies, a sign of recognition by a once indifferent society. Through their pious existence they strive to cope with a past in which most of them lost their husbands during Cambodia’s years of turmoil. 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