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  • Followers of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, Exmoor, Somerset, UK. Stag hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and sometimes killing of a stag by trained hounds and a group of followers lead by a 'master' who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. This controversial sport, was banned in England and Wales in November 2004.
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  • The Hawkins family from Warren Farm, (Andrew, Trudy, Giles, Hannah and Rebecca) following the Devon and Somerset stag hunt on horseback. Exmoor, Somerset, UK. Stag hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and sometimes killing of a stag by trained hounds and a group of followers lead by a 'master' who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. This controversial sport, was banned in England and Wales in November 2004.
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  • Followers of Hare Krishna promoting their faith on Oxford Street in London, UK. The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra, is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra which first appeared in the Kali-Santarana Upanishad, and which from the 15th century rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
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  • Followers of Hare Krishna promoting their faith on Oxford Street in London, UK. The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra, is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra which first appeared in the Kali-Santarana Upanishad, and which from the 15th century rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
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  • Billy Graham preaches with sincere, confidently open hands to British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies in London, England. Graham is an Evangelical Christian who has been a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents including George W Bush with Time Magazine calling him “.. the nation's spiritual counselor."  He is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century and member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here he is seen towering on a giant screen over the small heads of his UK congregation who are sitting passively listening to the message of this great man of God. The scale of his personality and presence above them makes this a powerful image of leadership and of followers.
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  • Psychogeographers in the City of London while following the route of the former River Walbrook, walk along Tokenhouse Yard during a walk by the writer Tom Chivers. Emerging from the shadows, and listening to an mp3 audio commentary including water sound effects, poetry and prose by the writer, they individually make their way along towards the Bank of England wall at the far end.
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  • Monks practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditate with dorje bells in the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. They are a western visitors, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007. Dorje is a common male name in Tibet and Bhutan. Dorje can also refer to a small sceptre held in the right hand by Tibetan lamas during religious ceremonies.
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  • Red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file through a dry valley near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • In the town of Alba the local beauty Queen, officially opens the famous and prestigious Truffle season. Alba is the capital of the highly priced "Tartufo" in Italy. Here seen a re-enactment of past history.
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  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Anti-lockdown and conspiracy theory literature on sale as Coronavirus deniers protest in Trafalgar Square for personal freedoms and against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Anti-lockdown and conspiracy theory literature on sale as Coronavirus deniers protest in Trafalgar Square for personal freedoms and against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
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  • Graffiti scrawled on the exterior of Barts Hospital, by fans of the popular TV show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch where the fictional character was filmed, seemingly jumping to his death, on 5th March 2017, at Smithfield, in the City of London, England.
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  • Below an effigy of Christ on the cross is a banner asking passers-by if theyre thinking about joining the Catholic faith in south London, on 21st September 2016, in Waterloo, SE1, London borough of Southwark, England UK.
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  • In a somewhat chaotic moment in proceedings, the late evangelical preacher Dr Benson Andrew Idahosa is said to be driving evil spirits from a lady who passes out and falls backwards during a ministry at Butlins holiday centre in Minehead, Somerset, England. Other members of the congregation are happily clapping at the power of Jesus during a week of Christian meetings and events led by visiting preachers and church leader. Benson Andrew Idahosa (1938 - 1998) was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria and known as the first Pentecostal archbishop in Nigeria
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  • In front of an upright piano and spring daffodils on a window ledge, we see a lady member of the evangelical Sacred Dance Ministry (Group) wearing a green velvet tunic while holding a wooden cross, standing in an otherwise empty room belonging to this Christian group in Milbourne St Andrew, Dorset, England. As part of the International Christian Dance Fellowship whose performers include performers, choreographers and teachers of all styles of dance technique, as well as those who dance in worship, intercession, healing, evangelism and prophetic interpretation and this lady has recreated a moment in one of their performances.
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  • Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass at the Hyde Park rally during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass at the Hyde Park rally during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass at the Hyde Park rally during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass at the Hyde Park rally during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Local Catholic church groups with banners await the start of the Hyde Park rally during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. In the foreground, a man holds a crucifix in his hand while behind, pilgrims hold their banners that will be paraded on stage in front of 80,000 people. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Local Catholic church groups with banners await the start of the Hyde Park rally during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. In the foreground, a man holds a crucifix in his hand while behind, pilgrims hold their banners that will be paraded on stage in front of 80,000 prople. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.
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  • Football supporter mates mess around in a London street before going on to watch their team's match elsewhere in the capital. But this man in the green stripes of his team is NOT a pickpocket as might be suggested on first look. He reaches into the unbuttoned pocket of the older-looking man in shorts. But recaptioning this picture to suggest he is a street criminal might be thought libellous, giving this brief moment a misinterpretation and misrepresentation.
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  • For their regular river washing ritual, the red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file down a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Country and Western singer George Hamilton IV performs in front of British Christians during Mission 89, a series of evangelical revival rallies in London, England held by Baptist Christian Billy Graham. Hamilton is a Singer/guitarist/songwriter of country, rock, folk, Christian and gospel songs with 40 on Billboard's country music charts in 1960s and '70s. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry with best-sellers like Abilene and A Rose And A Baby Ruth. George has been a frequent guest singer with the Dr. Billy Graham Crusades such as this in 1989.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. Their retreat centre is a Victorian house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In front of the couple is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
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  • Young Born Again Christians express emotions during a ministry at Butlins holiday centre in Minehead, Somerset, England. The annual meeting of fellow-evangelical pilgrims at one of Britain's holiday centres gives this otherwise jolly evening entertainment venue - a ballroom for dance and music - lends a far different atmosphere during this religious festival of prayer and dialogue with Jesus. Young people hold up their hands towards Heaven with either peace or pain on their faces.
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  • A crowd of striking ambulance drivers and other health service personnel gather in Trafalgar Square in central London to protest over poor working conditions. A placard showing a pair of hands holding a human heart telling us that they are important public serve because they help save lives. But unclean ambulances, one-hour queues to drop patients off at A&E departments and 12-hour shifts with little or no breaks about pay lowered staff morale so that paramedics implemented a work-to-rule policy to protest about a lack of resources. Ambulance workers enjoyed unprecedented levels of public support during the six-month dispute as opinion polls found more than four out of five people consistently backed the unions.
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  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
    conspiracy_theorists29-29-08-2020.jpg
  • Celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke is greted by adoring admirers as they gather in Trafalgar Square for an anti-lockdown and pro-personal freedom protest against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Anti-lockdown and conspiracy theory literature on sale as Coronavirus deniers protest in Trafalgar Square for personal freedoms and against the government and mainstream media who, they say, are behind disinformation and  untruths about the covid pandemic, on 29th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • As bright sunlight fills a bare studio room, and a wooden cross is propped up in the corner, Paula Douthett (left) and three other members of the evangelical Sacred Dance Ministry (Group) perform a moment from the biblical nativity scene in her house at Milbourne St Andrew, Dorset, England. Together they are acting as part of the International Christian Dance Fellowship whose performers include performers, choreographers and teachers of all styles of dance technique, as well as those who dance in worship, intercession, healing, evangelism and prophetic interpretation. In the middle, a lady pretends to be holding the baby Jesus while the others play the roles of angels as they express wonder and admiration for this miraculous moment.
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  • Local spectators beneath road access sign await the passing of the peloton on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • Buddhists meditate in silence for 30 minutes in their Shrine Room at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, England. A middle-aged man and a younger woman sit in a meditative cross-legged position in order to relax their bodies and free their minds for this period of inner-contemplation. In the middle on a polished parkay floor is a model of their retreat centre, a house now run by the Triratna Buddhist Community. Once a Victorian country rectory for the local vicar in this East Sussex village, it now houses facilities for the spiritual and the peaceful, having escaped for a brief time, the pressures of modern life. Beyond are two Buddhas on a tapestry and as a statue. The community web address is www.rivendellretreatcentre.com.
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  • A follower wearing a tweed jacket and bowler hat stands with his horse whilst watching the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, Exmoor, Somerset, UK. Stag hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and sometimes killing of a stag by trained hounds and a group of followers lead by a 'master' who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. This controversial sport, was banned in England and Wales in November 2004.
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  • A foot follower of the Dulverton West Foxhounds watches the fox hunt at Warren Farm, Simonsbath, Exmoor, Somerset, UK through a pair of binoculars. Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and sometimes killing of a fox by trained foxhounds and a group of unarmed followers lead by a 'master of foxhounds' who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. This controversial sport, was banned in England and Wales in November 2004.
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  • English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'. Boggan is a journalist for UK newspapers and magazines and so by setting free a ten-dollar bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights across 3,300 miles armed only with a sense of humour and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. He wrote his book in order to trace the life of the bill - but also to discover something of the lives of modern Americans in an age when plastic cards have largely overtaken the use of paper money in everyday use, especially in small town America.
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  • English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'. Boggan is a journalist for UK newspapers and magazines and so by setting free a ten-dollar bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights across 3,300 miles armed only with a sense of humour and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. He wrote his book in order to trace the life of the bill - but also to discover something of the lives of modern Americans in an age when plastic cards have largely overtaken the use of paper money in everyday use, especially in small town America.
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  • Usually played in pairs for morning and evenings calls to prayer, preludes, and processions, two western nuns following Tibetan-Buddhism play their Rag-Dung (brass trumpets) in a garden at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. One nun looks across to check finger positions of her fellow-player and they are sat cross-legged on the lush grass surrounded with flowers and tall plants. The Rag-Dung is the most spectacular of Tibetan ritual copper horns and some are up to twenty feet long. With a deeply resonant sound it is relatively easy to play. Those following this branch of Buddhism arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
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  • Surrounded by books and holy relics, a monk follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, prays in a caravan adapted to become a woodland home in the woodland near the Centre. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Michelle Dean is a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism and chants her Puja, or prayer in the privacy of her own home, a bed sit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having studied her Buddhism at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Michelle now lives within the larger society rather than the more closed but free community of Samye Ling where many people disaffected with western life or whom have experienced troubled times and sometimes escaping a criminal past, arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.
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  • Bending forward as a mark of humility and respect for his deity, a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism adjusts a prayer bowl in front of an effigy of Buddha at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes and many here have had a troubled youth, sometimes escaping a criminal past so arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
    uk_buddhism01-16-07-1997_1_1.jpg
  • A follower of Tibetan-Buddhism engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes, is adorned with tattoos and has his head shaven. He is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated Retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Beneath the statue of King James II as Roman Emperor, a tour guide leader carries a sunflower for his group to follow, passing the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • A visiting Lama teacher of Kagyu Tibetan-Buddhism greets a westerner baby and its father in the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. Touching the child on its head, the Lama smiles and appears the archetypal kind leader of the Buddhist religion. The dad and baby are western visitors in this peaceful location for spiritual cleansing and often to find answers to their complicated, modern lives. And many here have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • A nun practicing Tibetan-Buddhism meditates in silence at a shrine. Seen in almost silhouette, the young woman engages in Puja, or prayer, at the Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist retreat centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. She is a western visitor, many of whom have had a troubled youth and are sometimes escaping a criminal past, who arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreat periods, for short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • Amber Rudd, Pensions Secretary leaving 10 Downing Street following a weekly cabinet meeting on 9th July 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Offerings of flowers and candles at the That Luang festival, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Vientiane's most important Theravada Buddhist festival, "Boun That Luang", is held for three days during the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (November). Monks and laypeople from all over Laos congregate to celebrate the occasion with three days of religious ceremony followed by a week of festivities, day and night. The religious part concludes as laypeople, carrying incense and candles as offerings, circumambulate Pha That Luang three times in honor of Buddha.
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  • A brother and sister run through the back garden of their South London home. We see the younger sibling - a boy of three leading his big sister by the hand in some sort of follow-my-leader game. He pulls hard to tow the girl along who wears Wellington boots that are too large for her and they both hold out their arms for stability. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • City workers walk along a pedestrian pavement at Broadgate in the City of London. Seemingly walking in step, one female is among many other males, a gender inbalance for the workplace. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s. The City is a major business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was perhaps the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses
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  • Young Nepali boys do a leadership test in Pokhara  camp, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • A four year-old girl pulls at her mother's t-shirt as she pushes a pushchair uphill while her two year-old brother in turn pushes her up the incline of a street in Rennes, Brittany, France. In order of size - from tallest to smallest, they march together up the gradient of this French street, they laugh at this great game of push and pull. The three are on holiday in this town, during a vacation to Britanny. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A two and half year-old girl sits next to her three-month old baby brother, eating lunch during a day out with their mother who is seen holding on tight to the boy. With their hands up to each other's mouths, the girl takes a bite of a slice of bread sandwich. She is clearly relishing her food and has a large appetite while the boy seems to enjoy sucking on his fingers before the age where he can eat solids. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • A young girl leaps in the air while running backwards and forwards through the spray from one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square, on 20th August 2020, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A family walk past a large billboard ad informing the public about domestic abuse during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown which has seen a dramatic rise in domestic abuse cases in the UK, at Elephant & Castle, on 3rd July 2020, in London, England. The UK’s largest domestic abuse charity, Refuge, has reported a 700% increase in calls to its helpline in a single day.
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  • A Christian man sits on a bench outside the Design Museum on Kensington High Street, on 6th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Visitors line-up on Segways before exploring the grounds of Leeds Castle, on 21st October 2018, in Kent, England.
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  • Visitors line-up on Segways before exploring the grounds of Leeds Castle, on 21st October 2018, in Kent, England.
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  • Sheep and spring lambs in a farm land landscape, on 13th April 2017, in Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England.
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  • City workers walk through Lombard Street EC3 and beneath the carving of an anchor on a corporate office wall, in the heart of the capitals financial district, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
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  • A portrait of the Tibetan-Buddhist Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche standing in gardens of Samye Ling Buddhist Centre, Scotland. Looking relaxed and at peace with himself, the spiritual leader wears the robes and necklace of a Buddhist monk with a background of green grasses and reeds. Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche is a lama in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and abbot of the Samye Ling Monastery, Scotland, the first and largest of its kind in the West.
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  • Facing a setting sun, the near-exhausted rowers of a small ‘jolly boat’ has almost completed the long Great River Race by pulling their oars along 22 miles of the River Thames. About to row past the battleship HMS Belfast on the right and under Tower Bridge beyond, the four friends negotiate the choppy waters of the capital’s river. The Great River Race (also known as 'London's River Marathon') attracts both the true racer and the leisure rower. The course from Richmond to London docklands was inspired by the immense interest generated by a 1987 charity event in which the famous Doggett's Coat & Badge winners from The Company of Watermen & Lightermen rowed its shallop, or passenger barge, from Hampton Court to The Tower of London.
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  • It is dawn in Calcutta, West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the sun is rising from across the Howrah Bridge. A man has waded out into waist-deep water and stands in the polluted river saying his prayers and offering thanks to his Hindu Gods. He has found inner-peace, a tranquillity surrounded by the chaotic pace of Indian life in this city. The engineering of the bridge stretches across the water as the humanity cross to their businesses and markets. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River.
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  • A young couple demonstrate their rock 'n' roll dancing skills in front of a crowd in Myatts Fields park in Camberwell, South London UK. Spinning his partner on the specially-laid flooring, the gentleman is dressed in a double-breasted suit in keeping with the 1950s theme of this fair's celebration of a newly-refurbished park. The lady wears a red dress and holds her arm out to regain balance as she is pulled back towards her dance partner. The seated crowd watch attentively beneath London Plain trees whose foliage gives welcome shade on a warm summer afternoon.
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • A husband and wife make their way along a pavement towards the entrance of the Ascot racecourse where the annual Ladies' Day event is held as part of the English social season calendar. Leading the way and carrying two walking sticks and in a polythene bag, his best jacket for the dress-code is important if one is allowed access to the private enclosures. He wears a top hat and waste coat as he hobbles along with wife in tow. She is behind him rummaging through her handbag perhaps looking for tickets or cash. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • A man uses his smartphone to take a photo of a child pushing a walking trolley, on 5th January 2017, in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth, England.
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  • A devoted young Christian girl holds the hand of a Jesus statue in the foyer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons in central London, England. It is a Sunday morning and members of the Mormon church in Exhibition Road, central London have gathered for their service. The statue of Jesus stands in the corner of the churchs fmodern architecture.
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  • Two tourists walk downhill with their baggage towards one of the two cars of the funicular railway climbing the steep gradient of on Rua de Bica de Duarte Belo Elevador da Bica, on 13th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. The mechanical motor of the elevator was installed in 1890, but the lift only began functioning on 28 June 1892, after a couple of years of tests. The Bica Funicular is a funicular railway line in the civil parish of Misericórdia, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It connects the Rua de São Paulo with Calçada do Combro/Rua do Loreto, operated by Carris.
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  • Looking downwards from a high vantage point on a hillside, we see one mountain-biker leading a second cyclist as they traverse across a sunlit mountainside near the hamlet of Masecha in the parish of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The late afternoon sun is low across the valley and there is a haze that partly obscures and refracts light over the distant landscape. There is snow on the distant mountain peaks but the countryside has the brown look of a snowless winter. Far off villages and hamlets hug the hillsides and golden light floods the scene. The tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.
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  • A holy Sadhu man attracts a crowd on the Maidan in central Calcutta, India. Near some ballustrades built by the British during the last years of the Raj, the man is leaning forward on his knees and his head is buried in gravel. Practicing Tapas or Niyamas, is one form of Austerity that holy men like this perform to cleanse themselves of bad thoughts. It is a conservation of energy; an increase of power in the system by sense control; a process of positive-thought, self-imposed  hardships and inner-strength - all to gain a higher being for oneself. They might stand in cold water in winter, stand on or bury their heads in earth. Niyamas also breeds non-violence, truthfullness, non-stealing, moderation, non-possessiveness, purity, contentment, discipline, study and surrender.
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  • Two Dutch spectators wearing matching orange suits walk along an evenue in the former royal borough of Hampton Court, palace of Henry the Eighth's Hampton Court Palace on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Disciples listen to a lecture by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Holiness, The seventeenth reincarnation of The Karmapa Lama at the Vajra Vidya Institute for Buddhist studies in Sarnath, India
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  • Making their way across a snow-swept road in Norwood, south London, an elderly couple tread warily as the snow turns to slush. It's a bleak, raw morning as the new snowfall has settled on this suburban street where cars are parked on icy kerbs. Wearing sensible hats and coats and non-slip boots the pensioners are vulnerable to icy black spots which may endanger their stability because old people are susceptible to falls and injury at these hazardous times. A very monochrome landscape, we see little colour. Instead it is a scene of jeopardy and of an uncaring society for its older generations.
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  • A farmer is carrying his harvest of greens in his wicker basket on his back in a traditional Nepalese style in a small village in Dolakha district.
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  • A woman beneath a portrait of her murdered husband, rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Man at an Ahmadiyya mosque, Rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Woman weeps at the grave of her murdered child. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • An Ahmadiyya elder, blinded for his faith. Rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Ahmadiyyas praying at their mosque in Rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Two Ahmadiyya men after prayers at their mosque, Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • A boy plays ball in a mosque. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • An imam leads his congregation. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • An Ahmadiya boy, Rabwah, Pakistan...Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • A man holds a portrait of the prophet, Ahmed, Rabwah, Pakistan. Also known as Qadiani's The Ahmadiyyas are the followers of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835-1908). According to his followers, he was the  founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and The Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi. The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) movement in Islam is a religious organisation with more than 30 million members worldwide. Ahmadiyyas are now banned from calling themselves Muslim in Pakistan and suffer terrible discrimination under anti-blasphemy laws and are regularly murdered for their faith.
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  • Followers of Hare Krishna promoting their faith on Regent Street in London, UK. The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra, is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra which first appeared in the Kali-Santarana Upanishad, and which from the 15th century rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
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  • Followers of the Shiva sect of Hinduism ritually bathe at a Hindu Bathing festival at Courtalam waterfall, Tamil Nadu, India
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