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The eating of onions and garlic is forbidden to the Yellow Hat monks of Tibet--the celibate, stricter order. A monk who has partaken of them is regarded as unclean, and cannot take part in any religious ceremony. He is not even allowed to put out a fire.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 172