Bauls Wandering devotional minstrels of West Bengal, India.
The Bauls belong to a longstanding bardic tradition that poetically glorifies God while rebuking worldly hypocrisy.
Many practice left hand tantra. Living off alms, they are the peace, love and freedom “hippies” of West Bengal.
Today their timeless songs may be heard on trains and at public fairs called melas.
The Bauls’ poetry had a tremendous influence on the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bengali figure who founded the open air, asram-style Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan.
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