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
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
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
Nevertheless they saw Daba, where there is an important lamasery, Gortope, Maisar; and, a quarter of a mile from Tirthapuri, curious hot springs.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.
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
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
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
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 Gilson, Jewett Castello
