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Indoor photo of a seated group during a training convention in a concrete hall. In the foreground a man in white clothes with a light orange shawl sits cross-legged on the floor, holding a pen to his mouth and writing in a blue notebook. Beside him a bearded man with long hair wears orange robes and glasses and gestures with his hand while talking. Other seated participants wear orange robes and orange shawls, some with shaved heads, and several people in white garments sit on orange mats in the background. No clearly distinctive a person cues are visible, so no identification is made. The scene shows a seated attentive gathering with notebooks and pens.

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