ashram

ashram
    n 1: a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian
         ashram
    2: (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus
    

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "ashram":
      adytum, body, caste, cell, clan, class, cloister, colony,
      commonwealth, commune, community, den, economic class,
      endogamous group, extended family, family, gens, hermitage,
      hideaway, hideout, hiding place, holy of holies, ivory tower,
      kinship group, lair, mew, moiety, nuclear family, order, phratria,
      phratry, phyle, privacy, recess, retreat, sanctum,
      sanctum sanctorum, secret place, settlement, social class, society,
      subcaste, totem