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Coming-of-age ceremony

Coming-of-age ceremony

March 08, 2014 | 10:26 PM

Buddhist boys arriving to attend Bratabandha, a coming-of-age ceremony in Kathmandu yesterday. In Newari culture of the Shakya caste, the heads of young boys are shaved and they wear a dress of a monk during the Bratabandha ceremony among the hill communities of Nepal.

March 08, 2014 | 10:26 PM