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Recent Examples of ashramHis group has ashrams across 10 states and union territories in India and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide.—Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 July 2024 Dlamini, 27, was born in Los Angeles and spent time as a child with her mother at an ashram led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane.—Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023 The Sullivanians adhered to the same principles and traditions as many of the ashrams and rural intentional communities of the era: polyamory, communal living, group parenting, socialist politics.—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023 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 See All Example Sentences for ashram
When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.
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Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
It was also felt in neighboring countries, including Thailand.
March 28, 2025
At a Buddhist monastery in Pindaya, about 70 miles from the epicenter, women wailed as the spire atop a century-old golden dome called a stupa toppled over, one of several that were damaged there.
The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.
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Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
The TikTok post then pivots to Kate's curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during her wedding to Prince William in April 2011, again at the abbey followed by Kate and Meghan curtsying to the queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day in 2018.
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Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Andre sourced a 330-year-old stone fireplace from France, which was originally from an abbey that was destroyed during the war.
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