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Laos Photo: Garden of the Buddhas
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Photograph by John William Banagan/Getty Images
A reclining buddha graces Xieng Khonane, the "Garden of the Buddhas" near the Laos-Thailand border. The concrete statues were built in the 1950s by a priest who combined Buddhist and Hindu influences.
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