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
In four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a 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
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
"To say I was interested in blue sheep or snow leopards, or even in remote lamaseries, was no answer," he writes.
From Time Magazine Archive
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
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
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
Scattered throughout Tibet are upward of three thousand monasteries, or lamaseries.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
