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
As the High Lama's torchlit funeral procession winds across the lamasery, they flee into the cold.
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 talked on as they forsook the crowded street for a quarter close to the lamasery.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
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
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
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
Chobando is a small town, the houses and lamaseries of which, painted with a solution of red ochre, present, in the distance, a singular and not disagreeable appearance.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
