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
Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there in 1942.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact.
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I remembered sitting on a hillside near a lamasery, which was surrounded by a small village of Lamas' houses.
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
He describes the interiors of Mongol yurts and lamaseries, observes with fascination the diversion of technical talents that once conquered Asia into the construction of more & more intricate prayer wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were Tibetan mastiffs, such as are to be seen chained in the court yards of lamaseries.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
