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A seated ritual gathering of monastic disciples in orange and rust-red robes, many with bare shoulders and white forehead markings, hands pressed in namaste. Rudraksha malas and beaded bracelets are visible. Long white cloth runners hold banana-leaf plates of rice, fried snacks, and sweets, with water bottles lined along them. A man in orange with a shaved head and a microphone speaks at the front left, and a woman in the right foreground sits with hands folded. Other people sit in rows behind, and an easel with framed photographs stands at upper left.

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