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Why do monks and nuns shave their heads?

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Why do monks and nuns shave their heads?

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Monastics need to renounce all the mundane desires and longings in order to more readily achieve purity, be free from delusions, remove hindrances, and enter the way of practice. Once they shave their heads, they can easily be distinguished from those who have not joined the sangha.

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