lamasery

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Recent Examples of lamasery His sister is a smart square peg who took off running at the end of Season 3; in the new season, the family is trying to find her, a trip that takes them to a Tibetan lamasery, down South American rivers and onto a Japanese game show. Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
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Noun
  • An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • And yet, even when the Beatles retreated to an ashram in the late ’60s seeking transcendence, most Americans still saw yoga as something for hippies and Eastern mystics.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Founded in 1397 for hermit friars who had dedicated their life to St. Augustine, the monastery has been under the custodial care of the Augustinian order for centuries.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The monastery Mariazell owned the property, and Enea had to present his vision directly to the nuns, who had never considered leasing the land for such a purpose.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025

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