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US
/ˈæʃɹɑm/
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[ UK /ˈæʃɹæm/ ]
[ UK /ˈæʃɹæm/ ]
NOUN
- (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus
- a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram
How To Use ashram In A Sentence
- Today, ashrams and monasteries of various Hindu sects keep the traditions of classical learning alive.
- The US boarding schools, known as ashram-based gurukulas, were all closed by the mid-1980s. Krishna temples urge victims of abuse to make formal claim
- He spent many years in Hindu monasteries in central India and established a ashram at Nanded in Maharashtra where he lived for fifteen years before meeting Guru Gobind Singh.
- Cultural programmes by the Songs & Drama Division organized at Government Higher Secondary School, All India Devotional Song Competition at Shri Yog Ashram, religious discourses at Regunath Mandir, free langer by Seva Bharti and exhibition stalls by various departments were the other highlights of the Festival which is attracting thousands of devotees and locals. Navratra festival--1.70 lakh pilgrims pay obeisance at Vaishno Devi during first five Navratras
- The Hindu religious texts describe varna ashrama dharma, the religious/social law delineating duties of four castes.
- For some, the ashram is a working vacation with its emphasis on service, rather than study. CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007
- In the Saivite tradition, an aadheenam is a monastery-temple complex and not an ashram in the usual sense.
- It is in the Mahabharata that we get the syncretic picture of lokasamgraha through the concepts of caturvarnashrama dharma and moksha.
- Shukla followed him everywhere and finally came to the ashram.
- In the twilight of their years they are spending their lives at Sainik Ashram in Kakkanad since they found that they are a burden to their own families.