lamasery

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Recent Examples of lamasery His sister is a smart square peg who took off running at the end of Season 3; in the new season, the family is trying to find her, a trip that takes them to a Tibetan lamasery, down South American rivers and onto a Japanese game show. Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
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Noun
  • An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • And yet, even when the Beatles retreated to an ashram in the late ’60s seeking transcendence, most Americans still saw yoga as something for hippies and Eastern mystics.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1920s, the monastery was bought by William Randolph Hearst (of the famed publishing family) and dismantled and shipped piece by piece to America.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In its center lies the ancient inscription written in Greek, a language that was widely used in the region at the time the monastery was constructed, particularly in religious and administrative contexts.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The cloister lies just below the Hohensalzburg Palace which towers over Salzburg.
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The Cathedral of Brixen (Duomo di Bressanone) and the cloister — located in the same complex — should be the first stops on your list.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For a more country experience, there is the historic abbey, San Pietro in Valle, located between Spoleto and the Marmore Falls.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Situating them in a real abbey, Rabelais marshaled them as evidence of hypocrisy.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

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“Lamasery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamasery. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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