Comforting presence: A dog sitting on a marble Buddha statue. — AFP
Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar’s faithful – but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is now a perilous task.
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has been mired in bloody conflict since the military toppled the government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, terminating a 10-year experiment with democracy and sparking a widespread armed uprising.
