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
  • Policeman 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
Noun
  • For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But early construction revealed a network of tunnels that were part of an ancient monastery complex.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Cathedral of Brixen (Duomo di Bressanone) and the cloister — located in the same complex — should be the first stops on your list.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
  • During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For a more country experience, there is the historic abbey, San Pietro in Valle, located between Spoleto and the Marmore Falls.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Situating them in a real abbey, Rabelais marshaled them as evidence of hypocrisy.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

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