Myanmar actor becomes monk, creates stir, Entertainment News & Top Stories

YANGON • It seems wrong to call Paing Takhon a hot monk, but when the hunky Myanmar actor shaved his head and put on the robe, he caused quite a stir on social media.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday, the 24-year-old psychology student posted clean-shaven photos of himself looking serene in his one-shouldered robe.

It did not hurt that he also displayed an impressively muscled upper arm, with a tattoo on his torso snaking up his shoulder.

He wrote: “Spent my New Year 2021 by being a monk for 10 days and I felt so peaceful…”

In Myanmar, as in other South-east Asian countries such as Thailand, it is customary for a man to enter a monastery at some point in his life for a short stint.

Predictably, the Internet swooned over the drop-dead gorgeous model-turned-actor, with one thirsty commenter writing: “If the monks at my temple were that handsome, I’m afraid I would never go to the…