ashram
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ashram (plural ashrams)
- (Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.
- The entire ashram was excited.
- 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.
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edita secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus
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editashram m (plural ashrams)
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