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A candid outdoor photograph of a group of young men and women in saffron and white garments at a monastic training gathering. In the foreground a smiling young man with a shaved head, a red bindi and white tilak wears a saffron shawl and holds the edge of it while carrying a bamboo pole with an orange cloth tied to its top. Beside him a young man in an orange robe with a red border and a reddish-orange shawl, also holding a bamboo pole, smiles. On the left a man in white kurta and dhoti wears a rudraksha mala and carries a white plastic bag. Behind them, women in white saris with orange shawls and men in white shirts stand near a red building and a lattice window, with more saffron-clad participants and bamboo poles visible.

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