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  • Madru, who is nicknamed Dru is a Brahmin priest who spends most of his time hanging out at the Varanasi burning ghats explaining the ritual aspects of the cremation site to tourists and journalists alike. Sometimes he is given cash presents in exchange for the information. When he or another Brahmin priest assists at a cremation, he works as a guide as well for the chief mourner, who must follow a prescribed ritual to ensure the proper send off for the loved one. Brahmins are given gifts by the mourning family throughout the ritual process, which begins at home when a Hindu dies and continues for many months and then yearly. 
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest eats with a colleague at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, snips basil leaves for supper on the church rooftop garden. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Priest leading funeral procession of Henryk Nowicki in Powazek Cemetery, Warsaw Poland.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, leads a morning mass at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, leads a morning mass at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, inspects the church's wine cellars at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ascetic Hindu Priest--called a Sadhu, cloaks himself in a funeral shroud used to adorn bodies before they are cremated (left behind by mourners) at the main burning ghat in Varanasi.
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  • A visiting monk reads Buddhist scripts during a house blessing of Namgay and Nalim's house. Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Funeral of Henryk Nowicki in Powazek Cemetery, Warsaw Poland.
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  • Funeral of Henryk Nowicki in Powazek Cemetery, Warsaw Poland.
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  • Funeral of Henryk Nowicki in Powazek Cemetery, Warsaw Poland.
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  • Inside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Mass at Czestochowa, Poland. Jasna Gora Monastery (Black Madonna).
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  • Mass at Czestochowa, Poland. Jasna Gora Monastery (Black Madonna).
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  • As happens in every Bhutanese village each year, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • At the Shingkhey village temple in Bhutan, a two-day ceremony is held every year to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. The drum in the center of the room beats with a deep, resonant, almost ringing sound. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 78.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. A district dignitary participates in the celebration of the coming of electricity to Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • A young boy takes a communion wafer during Sunday morning services at Regina Mundi Catholic Church service in Soweto, South Africa.
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  • A cock strolls through the remote picturesque village of Santa Marina, which has a crackerbox church and stone roofs. There is no permanent priest in the town. However whenever a priest visits, there are masses. The town has electricity but there just as easily could not be. The town has few inhabitants. Rioja, Spain.
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Priest at temple in Belur, South India.
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  • First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. An exorcism is performed by a Catholic Priest, here sprinkling holy water, as visitors to ground zero mill around an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1986.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Priest with bicycle unlocks a door in Pisa, Italy.
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  • Priest at temple in Belur, South India.
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  • A local priest at a temple in Belur, South India.
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  • First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. An exorcism is performed by a Catholic Priest, here sprinkling holy water, as visitors to ground zero mill around an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1986.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest, oversees the preparation of a meal in the kitchen of the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
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  • A fruit tart baked at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps, where monk brother priest Ricardo Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, eats spaghetti for lunch at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps.  (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A plate of zucchini prepared with herbs for lunch at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps, where monk brother priest Riccardo Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Inside the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, where monk brother priest Ricardo Casagrande leads a morning mass (center). (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The interior of the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, where Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest leads a morning mass.   (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
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  • Monk brother priest Riccardo Casagrande's dinner of spaghetti on his table at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
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  • A Hindu priest pours an offering of ghee onto a fire at the Shiva Temple, which is built into the Kid's Kemp Shopping Mall on Old Airport Road in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 65-foot plaster statue of Lord Shiva sits in a lotus position before an amusement park-style Himalayan mountain-scape built of chicken wire and cement. This free popular attraction at the Kids Kemp shopping mall draws nearly 500,000 devotees on festival days.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Near Vientiane, Laos. Buddha Park sculpture garden full of HIndu and Buddhist statues made of concrete by Puang Pu, a shamanist priest in the 1950's.
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  • Padre Riccardo Casagrande, a Priest at the Church of San Marcello, in Rome, Italy, smokes a cigarette after a meal in the church dining hall. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest, cuts bread as he prepares for lunch at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Priests holding two rats by the tails during a ceremony at the Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Dashashwamedh Ghat is the most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also called as 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.  Early morning.  Varanasi, India..
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  • Brilliant spectacles of light from handheld towers of candles, held by priests and other Hindis during religious rites (pujas). Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a Roman Catholic friar and gastronome, in the San Marcello al Corso church dining hall in Rome, Italy, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in July was 4000 kcals. He is 63 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 140 pounds. For over 20 years he has overseen the kitchen, the rooftop garden, and the basement wine cellar for the friars and priests living in the church complex near Rome's Spanish Steps.   Between stints saying mass in the beautiful San Marcello al Corso in Rome, he is in charge of his fellow brothers' wine cellar, and oversees the cooks. Traditional Italian food is served family style in the brothers' large dining room. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
    IND_040414_282_xw.jpg
  • Evening tourist show on the Ganges, Varanasi, India. Brilliant spectacles of light from handheld towers of candles, held by priests and other Hindis during religious rites (pujas). Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi. There is a nightly ceremony of lights performed mostly for tourists.
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