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

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

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

The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both gifts were refused, as they said the lamasery was very wealthy, and the Pombo's position as an official did not allow him to carry a rifle.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage