chorten
[chawr-ten]
- (in Tibet) a monument to a distinguished Buddhist, especially a lama.
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Origin of chorten
1890–95; < Tibetan chörten (spelling mchod rten)
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The ostensible object of his journey was to visit the sacred Chorten at Khatmandu and the shrines of Benares.
The Unveiling of LhasaEdmund Candler
Here, too, they were busy making clay images to bury under the Chorten that they were building above the monastery.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
I was told that the centre Chorten had been built over a very bad demon, and that it kept him down.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury