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

In the memory of many of its "old boys," who have gone on to all sorts of success in life, Connecticut's Kent School still looms as New England's closest approach to a Tibetan lamasery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery.

From Time Magazine Archive

She pretended that she wanted it as a protection in the lamasery, for the door of her apartments was without a fastening.

From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon