ashram

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Recent Examples of ashram His Dera Sacha Sauda group has ashrams – places of worship – across 10 states and union territories in India, and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide. Manveena Suri, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023 While finishing his three-year degree, Mr. Shetty split his time off between interning at finance firms in London and training at an ashram in Mumbai under Gauranga Das. Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023 But after six weeks at the ashram the spaces between my thoughts did grow wider. Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021 Current Town: Aubrey Jonathon Thunderwood and his wife, Triptta, live in a religious community called an ashram that is dedicated to lifelong learning, spiritual awakening and community service. Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2022 See all Example Sentences for ashram 
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Noun
  • As a result, the area is especially rich in monasteries that, Dalla Ragione knew, had old gardens and orchards that had escaped the farm consolidations over the past half-century thanks to their isolated locations—and their unwillingness to sell their land to agribusiness.
    Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Originally a 17th-century imperial palace, the Lama Temple was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 1744.
    Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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  • During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But even within the cloisters of the monastery and behind the walls of its garden, with the city outside, there is also a solitude around each of the monks.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • All guests of La Ferme have access to the facilities of the abbey and a shuttle is available to transport them back and forth.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The Irish monk Columba settled on Iona in the sixth century and founded an abbey that became a center of Gaelic Christianity.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Teams were in the field to assess houses and other structures that have been destroyed or damaged.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • In November, Kevin sets tree stands low in mountain draws, often fairly close to houses, roads, and developments.
    Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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  • An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge.
    Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.
    Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024

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“Ashram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashram. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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