Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In Tibetan Buddhism, a monastery presided over by a lama.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Buddhist monastery or nunnery in Tibet or Mongolia, presided over by a chief lama, corresponding to a European abbot or abbess. Lamaseries are very numerous, and some contain several thousand inmates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A monastery or convent of lamas, in Tibet, Mongolia, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
monastery forlamas inTibet andMongolia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a monastery for lamas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[Page 209] 12 This lamasery is also known as Gomba Soma.
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The matter of discipline in the lamasery is a serious one.
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The office in the Kumbum lamasery is held for varying periods of time, depending partly on the incumbent's efficiency, but more perhaps on the number of his influential friends.
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I may say in passing that the lamasery is rightly located by Mr.W. W. Rockhill in his "Land of the Lamas" and that Capt.
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In the absence of the Chinese official the abbot of the lamasery was almost supreme in authority, but my desire to personally interview him did not prevail against the stringent laws forbidding women to enter the lamasery except once, annually, for the purpose of worship; so my conferences were carried on through my Mongol friend, for such he assuredly proved himself to be.
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He had indeed a greater surprise in store for us than the privilege of paying him a visit, for he told us very cordially that his own home in the lamasery was at our disposal, and bade us move our goods at once to his apartments and take up our abode there until the rebellion was over.
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The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys".
Phayul Latest News 2009
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Midway in the story the head lama of the Shangri-La "lamasery" tells Conway the story of a Capuchin monk who, traveling from Peking south-west by Lanchow and the Kokonor for some months, accidentally stumbles onto the valley of the Blue Moon where Shangri-La is located.
Phayul Latest News 2009
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The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys".
Phayul Latest News 2009
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Midway in the story the head lama of the Shangri-La "lamasery" tells Conway the story of a Capuchin monk who, traveling from Peking south-west by Lanchow and the Kokonor for some months, accidentally stumbles onto the valley of the Blue Moon where Shangri-La is located.
Phayul Latest News 2009
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