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

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

The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact.

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