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
You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the monastery or lamasery we had come so far to see.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Grant Allen
When finally handed to the Chinese, it was signed by representatives of the principal lamaseries, members of the National Assembly, and by every one of the Kashag, the Dalai Lama's Cabinet.
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 lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tibet, as in other Buddhist countries, there are nunneries besides lamaseries.
From In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
