lamasery
IPA: ɫˈæmʌsˈɛri
noun
- (Buddhism) A monastery for lamas.
Examples of "lamasery" in Sentences
- [Page 209] 12 This lamasery is also known as Gomba Soma.
- He claims that he personally was in the tibetan lamasery.
- The matter of discipline in the lamasery is a serious one.
- It was donated for use as a lamasery after his death in 1735.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.