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
After their head lama died in 1883, the monks of the Buddhist lamasery of Naribanchin Sume in Outer Mongolia went to work at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as in the regent's vision, there was a peasant house with a gabled roof, there was a winding road and, beyond, a three-storied lamasery whose golden dome sparkled with turquoise tiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a lamasery in the neighbourhood, where the birds are almost tame.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into Inner Mongolia, the ancient land of temple gongs, ten-foot-long ceremonial horns, and monks chanting prayers by lonely lamaseries, the Japanese introduced neon signs, phonographs and beer halls.
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
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
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
