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
When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia.
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
As the High Lama's torchlit funeral procession winds across the lamasery, they flee into the cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
We avoided the village, on whose outskirts the lamasery lay, and made straight for the valley.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Grant Allen
The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer.
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
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
