It is the Latinized version of the compound name Fard-nanth, which seems to mean "gentle traveler" or "spiritual pilgrim".

Can Mr. Pitt make the stretch from pinup to spiritual pilgrim?

In common Hindi usage, the word dharamshala refers to a shelter or rest house for spiritual pilgrims.

Accommodation of spiritual pilgrims and eco-tourists is now the biggest industry in Crestone.

DESPITE travel companies' targeting just about every niche imaginable, from spiritual pilgrims to extreme-sports enthusiasts, single parents and their children seem to have been largely overlooked.

From that point on "spiritual pilgrims have never had it so easy!"

By going a long way from the hand-clapping, amen-corner churches of his native Savannah, Ga., the spiritual pilgrim arrives at his destination by book's end.

For Dr. Coles, children are spiritual pilgrims searching for the answer to the problem of our aloneness in a universe where only we have language and therefore the ability to find meaning.

"We see ourselves as sort of spiritual pilgrims who stopped in the same way station for the night."

A spiritual pilgrim, Zimbalist was an early practitioner and proponent of Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.