vihara

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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
  • Although the French suppressed, or dissolved, the monastery in 1803, its volumes were preserved.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The little yellow ashram has a small meditation garden, a Hindu seminary and a residential monastery.
    Kira Wakeam, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The cloister lies just below the Hohensalzburg Palace which towers over Salzburg.
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Vihara.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vihara. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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