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Indoor ceremonial gathering in a metal-roofed hall decorated with colourful hanging tassel streamers and small pagoda-style lanterns. Several devotees in white clothing with orange-red shawls stand and sit on patterned mats; a man on the left holds a large red, green and yellow decorated umbrella, and another devotee at right holds a tall red flag. Flags of Nepal and other nations are raised among the crowd, a woman in the centre sits beside brass pots and a drum, and a gilded ceremonial throne-like structure with a red canopy stands in the background. Mostly in-person participants with a seated group in the foreground.

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