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
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
The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I remembered sitting on a hillside near a lamasery, which was surrounded by a small village of Lamas' houses.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
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.
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
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 Jewett Castello Gilson
