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This ritual is regionally found in India among male mourners, who shave their heads as a sign of bereavement. [7] Until a few decades ago, many Hindu communities, especially the upper castes, forced widows to undergo the ritual of tonsure and shun good clothes and ornaments, in order to make them unattractive to men. [8]
The Chudakarana (Sanskrit: चूडाकरण, lit. ' arrangement of the hair tuft ') or the Mundana (Sanskrit: मुण्डन, lit. ' tonsure '), is the eighth of the sixteen Hindu saṃskāras (sacraments), in which a child receives their first haircut.
A Thai Buddhist monk shaving the head of a man preparing to also become a Buddhist monk; this is known as tonsure. Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of their heads for diverse reasons including aesthetics, convenience, culture ...
Hindu rituals after death, including Vedic rituals after death, are ceremonial rituals in Hinduism, one of the samskaras (rite of passage) based on Vedas and other Hindu texts, performed after the death of a human being for their moksha and consequent ascendance to Svarga (heaven). Some of these vary across the spectrum of Hindu society.
Traditionally, Hindu men shave off all their hair as a child in a samskāra or ritual known as the chudakarana. [13] A lock of hair is left at the crown (). [14]Unlike most other eastern cultures where a coming-of-age ceremony removed childhood locks of hair similar to the shikha, in India, this prepubescent hairstyle is left to grow throughout the man's life, though usually only the most ...
The ritual first haircut (Polish: postrzyżyny) was a pre-Christian pagan-Slavic tradition which survived in Poland well into the 18th century. This first haircut traditionally took place between the ages of 7 and 10, and was conducted by either the boy's father or a stranger, who would thus enter into the boy's family. [ 6 ]
Tonsure system: a person becomes tonsured as a novice monastic under the Master's school. He or she is given a Dharma name (法 號) at the time of tonsure based on the Master's lineage. This name is also called "the outer name (外 號)" because it is used by all people to address the novice. This name is used for life.
The Rite of Tonsure is printed in the Euchologion (Church Slavonic: Trebnik), as are the other Sacred Mysteries and services performed according to need, such as funerals, blessings, and exorcisms. The monastic habit is the same throughout the Eastern Church (with certain slight regional variations), and it is the same for both monks and nuns.