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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ashram
noun
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▪ I sleep each night on a temple ashram floor, or with the family of the village headman.
▪ Now Gandhi sat in his ashram.
▪ Over the years, many thousands of high-caste Hindus felt honored to come to the ashram to talk and eat with Gandhi.
▪ Shukla followed him everywhere and finally came to the ashram.
▪ Still the women of the ashram refused to work in the kitchen with the untouchable woman.
▪ The village and ashram had no running water, electricity, fans, radio, or telephone.
▪ The wealthy Bombay and Ahmedabad magnates thereupon withdrew their financial support of the ashram.
▪ The week I spent in the ashram this energy and passion were driving Gandhi toward another campaign of civil disobedience.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ashram

"religious hermitage," 1917, from Sanskrit asramah, from a-, adnomial prefix, + sramah "effort, toll, fatigue."

Wiktionary
ashram

n. (context Hinduism English) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.

Wikipedia
Ashram

Traditionally, an ashram (or ashramam) is a spiritual hermitage or a monastery in Indian religions. Today the term ashram often denotes a locus of Indian cultural activity such as yoga, music study or religious instruction, similar to a studio, yeshiva, iʿtikāf or dojo.

Ashram (Balmiki)

A Balmiki temple is called an Ashram, which means a hermitage or monastery. It is the communal house for Balmikis. The function of the Ashram is to serve as a center for building up the commitment of devotee’s and for transmitting the Ramayana's message, and the focal point for the whole community to preserve their culture and traditions.

For Balmikis communal prayer is not restricted to the confines of the Ashram, but can in fact take place anywhere as long as The Ramayana is present. However, when an Ashram is not within traveling distance many Balmiki families will have a copy of the Ramayana in a special room at their house which can be used for worship.

When an Ashram is not available Balmikis will hire a public building or use an individual’s house as an Ashram.

Ashram (disambiguation)

Ashram is an isolated Hindu site designed for spiritual instruction and meditation.

Ashram may also refer to:

  • Ashram (Balmiki), the main site of worship in the Balmiki faith
  • Ashrama (stage), a Hindu social system based on stages of life
  • Ashram (band), an Italian band
  • The Ashram, a 2005 novel by Sattar Memon
Ashram (band)

Ashram is a neoclassical band from Italy band made up of Sergio Panarella, Luigi Rubino, Alfredo Notarloberti and Leonardo Massa. Their songs typically comprise piano, violin, cello and vocals.

Usage examples of "ashram".

In the very center is the ashram, with our altar, and I will tell more about that later.

I had best do is go back to the living-domes and ask permission to spend the rest of this day in the ashram, because I am foul and black and dreadful inside.

But usually those of us who die die in the ashram, with all of the cluster around them, and it is a time for great loving and celebration.

Here, at the Ashram, he had founded a community devoted to prayer, meditation, and spiritual growth.

Rather, the Ashram was a beautiful retreat in a lovely location, where under the gentle guidance of the Teacher each worshiped in his own way, at a cost of seven hundred dollars per week, room and board included.

The chants began, first as two screams, then as drumrolls, and the feet began hitting the floor and the whole ashram building shook with the chant of Kali.

Baynes family, except the dog, showed up at the ashram and presented themselves to Ban Sar Din.

Baynes, and turned to Ban Sar Din to ask if the ashram offered yoga programs, breathing, discussion groups, chanting, and had guest speakers.

Baynes knelt in the rear with his family, and they all waved their arms and screamed when the rest of the ashram screamed to kill for the love of Kali.

In the rear of the ashram, he felt as if he had just discovered atomic energy.

Ban Sar Din ran out into the ashram from his holy office in the back, dumped out a batch of yellow handkerchiefs, and ran back to his office.

The floor of the ashram shuddered with the slam of a steel-reinforced door.

Ban Sar Din said, wondering what would happen if she got picked up for murder alone, without another member of the ashram around to kill her before she could spill the beans to the police.

If the statue had wanted her to leave the ashram, she reasoned, it must have been for a purpose, a serious purpose.

Baynes, stepping forward from behind the partition that separated the public part of the ashram from his office.