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Vihara

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In Sanskrit, the term vihara simply means ‘construction’ or ‘building’ but it is often translated as ‘monastery’. In Buddhism, vihara originally referred only to the living areas and dormitories of monks and nuns in cave monasteries. Later it came to signify the monastery as a whole.