There is a circuit around the Mahabodi temple (in Bodh Gaya, Bihar) were monks, nuns and other people walk around in a walking meditation. They often carry and manipulate a mala, which is a string of beads kinda like a rosary but with 108 beads and a separate joining bead, the beads can be made of anything but some materials are more favoured. The Mahabodi temple is the temple built next to the site of the Bhodi tree under which Siddharthua Guatama meditated for 49 days and achieved enlightenment and became the Buddha.

The monk is wearing socks not because it is cold, but because without them it is painful to walk on the hot ground without them and no shoes are allowed within the temple grounds.