lamasery

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Because the affair took place at Kum Bum Lamasery in remote Hwangyuan, China�which is practically out of this world�it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next to the plaster mountains are two 40-ft. waterfalls, four glistening pools, and an 80-ft.-high Greco-Roman-Byzantine-Gothic-Sung-Khmer Lamasery that owes more to Hilton the hotelier than Hilton the novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meetings were held in Madame's apartment, nicknamed "The Lamasery," and decorated like a bad dream.

From Time Magazine Archive

To-morrow we shall ascend a high mountain, thirty lis from the Lamasery, and there we shall pass the day, saying prayers and sending off horses.” 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

Far below on a yellow hillside hung the Kanjut Lamasery above Rinchengong.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund