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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • First year monks learn to play religious music on flutes and drums before they have to give musical exams to the Lama of Punakh Dzong October 11, 2005 in Punakha, central Bhutan. Before 1995, Punakha was the capital of Bhutan. Bhutan is a Kingdom of 753,000 people and is about 80 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu.
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  • A Buddhist meditates next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment, cloaked in white. In many Asian cultures, white clothing is worn as a sign of mourning. It is the traditional color of funeral garb. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • Buddhists meditate next to the tree where Buddha got his Enlightment in Bodh Gaya, India in December 2006. Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Japan have  been streaming to the holy city, circumambulating the temple, performing prostrations and offering prayers in a multitude of languages.
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  • The Punakh Dzong is shown October 11, 2005 in Punakha Bhutan.
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Young monks search for the last  fruits in pear trees as winter sets in Bhumthang, Eastern Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks eat breakfast and perform morning chores in a monastery near Trashi Yengtse October 14, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival and later a fire is lit and villagers run underneath it as they believe it will wash away all their sins in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005. The festival is a traditional Buddist ceremony performed every year and begins with a dance of the black hats. The Black hats perform a purification and blessing of the ground with alcohol and grains and then they dance to chase away evil influences. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Traditional doctor heats a gold needle to treat joint pains or headaches to a patient at the Trashi Yengtse hospital in Eastern  Bhutan October 15, 2005. (ami Vitale)
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  • Monks practice a mask dance for the annual festival on November 7th, 2005 at the Old Dzong in Trashi Yengtse village in Eastern Bhutan October 15, 2005.l (Ami Vitale)
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival in Jakar, Bhumtang district
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  • Bhutanese dancers perform in the Jampey Lhakhang festival in Jakar, Bhumtang district October 18, 2005.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Hindu holy men perform a "puja" which is a ceremony to their gods, along India's Ganges River in their holiest city, Varanasi (formerly Banaras). Varanasi is principally known to travelers for its ghats (stone steps leading directly into the water). Most ghats are used for ritual bathing. Hindu pilgrims, while standing waist high in the water, pray to cleanse their souls as they face the rising sun.<br />
Varanasi also has cremation ghats because Hindus believe that those who die and are cremated in Varanasi go directly to heaven, bypassing the lengthy reincarnation process. First the dead are burned on riverside pyres, then their ashes are scattered on the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Jeffrey Tayler works his way through the endless traffic of humanity and livestock that crowds the streets of one of India's holiest cities, Varanasi December, 2006.
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  • Jeffrey Tayler works his way through the endless traffic of humanity and livestock that crowds the streets of one of India's holiest cities, Varanasi December, 2006.
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  • Jeffrey Tayler works his way through the endless traffic of humanity and livestock that crowds the streets of one of India's holiest cities, Varanasi December, 2006.
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