An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.
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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.
In the 1920s, the monastery was bought by William Randolph Hearst (of the famed publishing family) and dismantled and shipped piece by piece to America.
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Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
In its center lies the ancient inscription written in Greek, a language that was widely used in the region at the time the monastery was constructed, particularly in religious and administrative contexts.
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