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- Do you know where yellow dress was custom in the eleventh century? It was supposedly in a religious community
near Tibet.
- One of my guides about the Himalaya mentions the rise of a new religion in the fifteenth century in eastern Tibet initiated by a buddhist monk called Tsongkhapa who resented traditional monasteric disciplin. He founded a community called the Gelugpa or the school of the virtuous. In stead of a traditional red cap they wore a yellow hood. Perhaps you mean the Gelugpa community.
- Do you know what kind of dress people wear in Cambodia, perhaps some sort of buddhist clothing?
- In Cambodia men as well as women often wear a sarong when they are at home. People who can afford it prefer a silk sarong. In the large cities the men wear trousers when they are out in the street, the women wear modern western dress. At special occasions the women wear a "hol" or blouse in daytime. In the evening they wear a "phamuong" or silk dress with ornaments at the brim. At a wedding festival the colour of their dress is determined by the day of the week on which the marriage takes place. A visit to a temple requires decent clothing. The ethnic-cultural minorities do not wear traditional dress any more.
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