Two novice Buddhist monks with offerings, and Buddha head, Wat Phra Mahathat, Ayuthaya Historical Park, Ayuthaya (Ayutthaya), UNESCO World Heritage Site, central Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Novice monk with offering of flowers, and Buddha head in Wat Phra Mahathat, Ayuthaya (Ayutthaya) Historical Park, Ayuthaya (Ayutthaya), UNESCO World Heritage Site, central Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Buddhist monk having his head shaved, U Min Kyaukse Pagoda, Sagaing, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Buddhist monk at Angkor Wat, Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina, Asia

Trooping funnel (Monk's head mushroom) (Clitocybe) (Infundibulicybe geotropa), Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Lower Woods nature reserve, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Joranda monk wearing tree bark cloth, holding palm leaf fan, with uncut hair piled up on top of his head, Joranda, Orissa, India, Asia

Joranda monk wearing tree bark loincloth, holding palm leaf fan, with uncut hair piled up on top of his head, Joranda, Orissa, India, Asia

A devout Joranda monk gathers his uncut hair to coil it on top of his head, surrounded by other monks, Joranda, Dhenkanal, Orissa, India, Asia

Laos, head monk at a monastery in the holy city of luang prabang

Young monk having his head shaved in ordination ceremony, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Bhutanese monks talk with head monk, Kyichu Temple, Bhutan, Asia

Head Buddhist monk of village temple, near Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

A female Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi) hauled out on Sugar Beach, Maui, Hawaii. Pacific Ocean.

Serious Caucasian woman with shaved-head holding pills

Woman shoving face of boyfriend in cake

Serious Caucasian woman with shaved-head holding pills

Woman resting head on shoulder of man

Woman shoving cake in face of boyfriend

Shaolin monk with symbolic burn marks on his shaven head, Shaolin Monastery, known for Shaolin boxing, Taoist Buddhist mountain, Song Shan, Henan province, China

young monks sitting, Burma, Myanmar

Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), portrait, native to southern Europe and Central Asia, captive, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), portrait, native to southern Europe and Central Asia, captive, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Cinereous Vulture, Black Vulture or Monk Vulture (Aegypius monachus), portrait, native to Southern Europe and Central Asia, in captivity, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), portrait, native to southern Europe and Central Asia, captive, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Novice monk in the Shwe Yaunghwe Kyaung Monastery, near Nyaungshwe, Shan State, Inle Lake, Myanmar, Asia

Novice monks during the morning bath with a shaving of the head in the Shwe Yaunghwe Kyaung Monastery, near Nyaungshwe, Shan State, Inle Lake, Myanmar, Asia

Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), portrait, captive, Germany, Europe

Statues of monks in a monastery, Yangon, Myanmar

A LAotian-American female monk with shaved head makes an offering of rice during worship as the Laotian American community celebrates the Buddhist new year by gathering at a property in suburban East Hartford Connecticut on April 28, 2007. Several shrines are set up on the property. The celebrants leave offerings of food, flowers and money, pray, dance, and feast for a day. Immigrants from Laos, including the Hmong people, are refugees from the Vietnam War era, when they helped United States in the war.

Cambodian monk in the province of Siem Reap playing with a banana trunk he puts on his head