Jun 25, 2019 · Over the centuries the curly hair became a stylized pattern that sometimes looks more like a helmet than hair, and the topknot became a bump. But depicting the historical Buddha with a shaved head remains rare.

Jul 10, 2020 · Monks are bald because Buddhism says hair is three thousand threads of trouble. But why, then, do Tibetan Buddhists keep 108 braids to ward off the woe?

The Buddha asked his monks to keep their heads and faces shaved and nuns to keep their heads shaved, probably for hygienic reasons and to lessen vanity (Vin.II,207). Nuns were expected to shave their underarm and pubic hair which was a sign of respectability in women (Vin.IV,260).

1As a common, albeit rather literary expression has it, in Tibet the Buddhist clergy is twofold, made up of “the category of the saffron-robed monks, and the category of the long-haired [ones] clothed in white”. 2 The former hardly need an introduction.

Unlike shaven monks, the identity of trantrists is rooted in this long hair, which is permeated with divine presence after they receive the hair consecration and make their dreadlocks.

Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its

Aug 6, 2022 · Over the centuries the curly hair became a stylized pattern that sometimes looks more like a helmet than hair, and the topknot became a bump. But depicting the historical Buddha with a shaved head remains rare.

Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its large numbers of tantrists, many of whom wear dreadlocks wound around their heads.

PDF | On Nov 1, 2008, Benjamin Bogin published The Dreadlocks Treatise: On Tantric Hairstyles in Tibetan Buddhism | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Aug 14, 2022 · It's most likely a combination of displaying one of the marks of a great man that relates to hair, and an exaggerated depiction of a buddha's head not being freshly shaven. As others have said, the scriptural sources are clear that the Buddha did shave his hair.