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

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

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

Speaking of gods, I must not forget to mention the great lamasery at Turin, about one hundred and seventy miles from Urga.

From Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Andrews, Roy Chapman