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Sadhvi, Hindu Women Monastics
You don't see too many women monks, or nuns if you are being pedantic, but there are some. Women generally tend to gravitate towards the householders path therefore you see fewer women renunciates then you do men. Here's a photo of a sadhvi, a woman monastic. Men are called sadhus. This photo was taken at the 2010 Kumbha Mela in Haridwar, North India. The three stripes on her forehead means she i...
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Apr 23, 2012 Photography & TravelSadhus at the Kumbha Mela
This photo makes up Day 5 of our 14 day series of photos of sadhus. It's one of my favorites. Within certain sects of sadhus in the north of the Indian subcontinent smoking marijuana (not cigarettes) is permitted but the consumption of alcohol is not. In the southern parts of th
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