1.   As word spread of his stringent traditional teachings, the camp attracted many thousands of novice monks and nuns at a time.

2.   Novice monks overflowed available space.

3.   Young novice monks, who have come to study Buddhism, are a significant presence.

4.   Police used truncheons to beat novice Buddhist monks and nuns who were petitioning for more religious freedom, a French-based group said Friday.

5.   Nearly all Buddhist men in Thailand undergo a period as a novice monk, usually in their boyhood.

6.   The Datum festival makes offerings to Buddha and raises money to support novice monks.

7.   A Buddhist novice monk has died of gunshot wounds this week in religious unrest in the northern Burmese city of Mandalay, a diplomatic source said Thursday.

8.   Monks vandalized mosques and destroyed Moslem property in incidents which left at least one novice monk dead of gunshot wounds, diplomats and other sources said.