lamasery

Example Sentences

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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

His lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project�finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God.

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

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

The city lay before him, patches of gloom and shadow, beneath the dark bulk of the lamasery.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry