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
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
Two months ago, Billy got the nod from the high lamasery of all crooners, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, a place sing-sanctified by Sinatra's first big-time appearance there in 1942.
From Time Magazine Archive
You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan 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 Gordon Casserly
Into Inner Mongolia, the ancient land of temple gongs, ten-foot-long ceremonial horns, and monks chanting prayers by lonely lamaseries, the Japanese introduced neon signs, phonographs and beer halls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized.
From Time Magazine Archive
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were Tibetan mastiffs, such as are to be seen chained in the court yards of lamaseries.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
