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 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
After their head lama died in 1883, the monks of the Buddhist lamasery of Naribanchin Sume in Outer Mongolia went to work at once.
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As the High Lama's torchlit funeral procession winds across the lamasery, they flee into the cold.
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Afterward, Trent could remember no single incident of that brief ride from the lamasery; it was a panorama of moon and white walls and darkness.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them.
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About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
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The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
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
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