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Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples

The Twelvefold Dhuta Practice

A rakan demonstrates how to string a rosary while attendants wash and puncture each bead
A rakan worships a Buddha figure he has just finished carving, as evidenced by the wood shavings still scattered at its feet.
Twelvefold Dhuta Practice: The Hermitage, Five Hundred Arhats: Scrolls 41 and 42
Three rakan sit in meditation around an incense burner suspended from a tree's bizarre roots.
Three rakan sit under the shadow of overhanging trees while across the swamp two more are settled before a stone pagoda in a graveyard.
Twelvefold Dhuta Practice: Living under the Trees among Burial Grounds; Meditation on the Ground, Five Hundred Arhats: Scrolls 49 and 50