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Roman tonsure (Catholicism) Tonsure (/ ˈ t ɒ n ʃ ər /) is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.. The term originates from the Latin word tonsura (meaning "clipping" or "shearing" [1]) and referred to a specific practice in medieval Catholicism, abandoned by papal order in 19
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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 ...
In the Yazidi tradition (mainly in Iran), the bisk ceremony involves cutting of a baby boy's two or three first locks, according to old traditions by his 40th day after birth to be given to the family's shaikh and pir, but in modern practice at 7 to 11 months, and kept by the family. The bisk ceremony is regarded as the central initiatory ...
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.
Traditionally, Hindu men shave off all their hair as a child in a samskāra or ritual known as the chudakarana. [14] A lock of hair is left at the crown (). [15]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 ...