ashram

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From Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

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ashram (plural ashrams)

  1. (Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219:
      In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.
    The entire ashram was excited.

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ashram m (plural ashrams)

  1. ashram