Thousands of Buddhist monks have gathered at Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda for a protest march.
The monks said it would be their largest march since launching protests a week ago in a battle of wills against Burma's military government.
The monks invited the public to join the rally, and top local movie actor Kyaw Thu offered the clerics alms at the landmark in the first public support by local celebrities to the country's biggest anti-government protests in two decades.
Diplomats and analysts, meanwhile, said Burma's military rulers are showing unexpected restraint in cracking down on the protests because of pressure from the country's key trading partner, China.
At least 3,000 monks turned up at the Shwedagon, a historical centre for political movements as well as the country's most sacred religious shrine, to launch their seventh day of marches.
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