lamasery
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It focuses, closely, on Peyangki, a 9-year-old Buddhist monk in a dying lamasery in a remote mountain village in Bhutan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2014
As the High Lama's torchlit funeral procession winds across the lamasery, they flee into the cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there in 1942.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact.
From Time Magazine Archive
They enter the lamasery when very young, and remain students for many years.
From In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
He describes the interiors of Mongol yurts and lamaseries, observes with fascination the diversion of technical talents that once conquered Asia into the construction of more & more intricate prayer wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Green-roofed temples and whitewashed lamaseries daily became more numerous.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
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