vihara

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Noun
  • About 90 minutes from Dallas, in a north Texas farming community home to more cows than people, sits an ashram where two Jain monks and documentary filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, 41, and Sadhvi Anubhuti, 42, are on a spiritual journey of a whole other kind.
    Kayla McCormick, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2025
  • An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Which explains why Lochlan is keen to stay in the monastery’s insulating cocoon.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Vihara.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vihara. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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