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Photograph of three men walking barefoot on a white marble walkway beside a carved stone shrine niche holding a seated Buddha statue in a dark stone niche, with green trees behind. The foremost man, long dark hair swept back, wears an orange saffron wrap draped over his shoulder and body. Behind him a man in white kurta and white trousers carries an orange-wrapped staff and wears an orange shawl. At the right rear, a man in orange robes with a maroon-edged stole and orange dhoti, with a red tilak on his forehead and beads at his neck, looks toward the shrine. Visible copyright text overlays the upper right corner.

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