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

The Premier took it on the lam 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

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

The high Lamas sell them to devotees, and one or more of these scarves is presented to those who leave a satisfactory oblation after visiting a lamasery and temple.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage