lamasery

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

In the memory of many of its "old boys," who have gone on to all sorts of success in life, Connecticut's Kent School still looms as New England's closest approach to a Tibetan lamasery.

From Time Magazine Archive

He talked on as they forsook the crowded street for a quarter close to the lamasery.

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