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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vihara
Noun
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About 90 minutes from Dallas, in a north Texas farming community home to more cows than people, sits an ashram where two Jain monks and documentary filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, 41, and Sadhvi Anubhuti, 42, are on a spiritual journey of a whole other kind.—
Kayla McCormick,
NBC news,
23 Mar. 2025 -
An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Vihara.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vihara. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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