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

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

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

For weeks she had been a prisoner in the lamasery, cloistered in a suite of well-furnished rooms and waited on by a close-cropped nun.

From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon