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A large outdoor gathering of young monastic students and devotees seated on the bare earth beneath a huge banyan tree with exposed aerial roots. The seated men wear saffron-orange dhotis and shawls with gold borders and have shaved heads, some with white tilak markings and rudraksha malas. The women and girls in white saris with gold borders and orange sashes sit with hair in buns, some with white forehead markings. In the background, a draped tiger-skin style cloth lies on a raised platform near a dark cave opening with a small lit lamp. A blue sign is visible at the top of the cave entrance.

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