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They aren't. Most of the Buddhists you pass everyday in the street look like everyone else - hair, glasses, T-shirts, comb overs - only in cheap movies relying on stereotypes and in pictures of lamasaries do you see primarily bald Buddhists.

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Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads to remind themselves that attachment to things in this life - like vanity about one's personal appearance - is the source of suffering.

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