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India
1 pilgrimage site
Himachal Pradesh, India · 1947
At Kasauli in the Himalayan foothills — three days after Indian Independence — Sangharakshita and Satyapriya formally renounced the world, donned ochre robes, shaved their heads, and 'went forth' as homeless wanderers. The biographical start of Sangharakshita's monastic journey.