WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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