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Jain monks pull out their own hair by hand

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Going to the barber is entirely too luxurious. Instead, these dedicated practitioners endure a ritual where their hair is painfully yanked out by the roots to demonstrate total detachment from worldly vanity and bodily pain. It makes modern waxing appointments look like absolute child's play.

Jain monks pull out their own hair by hand
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