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 four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a 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.
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
He was not satisfied by the tales told by the monks of the lamasery to account for Muriel's mysterious disappearance, which was that she had been carried off by devils.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
"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
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
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 monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them.
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
