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Recent Examples of ashramPoliceman turned preacher Reportedly born Narayan Sakar to a low-caste family, Bhole Baba used to be a constable with the Uttar Pradesh Police before becoming a preacher and establishing an ashram – or place of worship – in the state.—Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 July 2024 His 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 See All Example Sentences for ashram
Curious newbies can sign up for the monastery’s Beginning Instruction sessions every other Sunday and on the second Wednesday of each month, or participate in a weekend retreat.
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AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
9 July 2025
Other cultural experiences include Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas and ancient temples in central forests.
According to People, the couple hosted a welcome party for their guests in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church on the Thursday night ahead of their wedding day.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
The wedding festivities kicked off on Thursday, June 27, with a welcome party, held in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church.
The cat spooks, darting under a pile of debris that was once a house.
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Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
12 July 2025
Meanwhile, videos circulating on social media show a house being swept up in the surge in Ruidoso as rushing waters tore through previously burn-scarred terrain from wildfires.
The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP).
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Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus).
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