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

His lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project�finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia.

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

Afterward, Trent could remember no single incident of that brief ride from the lamasery; it was a panorama of moon and white walls and darkness.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry