Source: The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22549354-12377,00.html
Buddhist monks last month declared a boycott on donations from soldiers and their families as they spearheaded protests which brought as many as 100,000 people onto the streets of the nation's main city.
The monks were beaten and arrested when the ruling generals reacted to the biggest threat to their rule in 20 years with a bloody crackdown that left at least 13 people dead and more than 2100 locked up.
The official New Light of Myanmar newspaper said Lieutenant General Myint Swe of the defence ministry yesterday distributed about $US8000 ($8877) in cash and huge amounts of rice, cooking oil, toothpaste and medicine to 50 monasteries and a nunnery in northern Rangoon.
The paper, a government mouthpiece, said the donations were made on behalf of military members and their families, and were accepted by the monks.
In Buddhism, refusing to take alms is regarded as a snub akin to effective excommunication, and acceptance of the gifts would indicate the soldiers have been brought back into the faith.