lamaist
IPA: ɫˈɑmaɪɪst
noun
- One who believes in lamaism.
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Examples of "lamaist" in Sentences
- It's either a Lamaist or PRC narrative.
- He is simply repeating pro lamaist propaganda.
- Choibalsan originally trained as a Lamaist monk.
- The practise apparently was part of lamaist popular medicine.
- A lamaist ecclesiastic was the hierarchical head of all Buddhists, all other religions being placed under the supervision of a special board.
- At the head of the lamaist hierarchy of Tibet are the dalai lama and the panch'en erdeni lama; the word "lama" is derived from a Tibetan word, in Chinese wu shang, meaning "unsurpassed".
- Nomên 'Han is the descendant of a counsellor sent in the sixteenth century by the dalai lama to the chief of the Ordos; his residence is at Kuku-Khoto; the metropolitan lama, Ch'ang Kia' Hut'ukht'u, has his see at Dolonnor; the head of lamaist monasteries is called K'anpu
- (b. at Amdo near Kuku-nor in 1358), founder of the Gelupa Sect, who adopted a yellow dress (hwang kiao), and obliged his followers to return to the primitive religion of Buddha; he founded the monasteries of Gadan and of Sera, and died in 1418, having established the lamaist hierarchy.