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Sri Ramana Ashram
Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu · 12.2241°, 79.0568°
Samadhi of Ramana Maharshi; ShivaModern—
Sacred since
1922 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
founded 1922; temple 1939-1949
Modern
History & significance
An Advaita Vedanta ashram at the foot of Arunachala hill, which grew from December 1922 around the samadhi shrine of Ramana Maharshi's mother and became the seat of his teaching. The guru's own body is enshrined in a samadhi hall on the campus, beside a temple built between 1939 and 1949 by the sthapati Vaidyanatha.