Lamaism
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He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lamaism, faith of 3,000,000 Tibetans, 7,000,000 Mongols and other races in Central Asia, is a form of Buddhism, brought from India through the snow-swept passes of the Himalayas in the 7th Century.
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His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials.
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Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet one cannot leave the subject of the Lhasa monasteries without remarking on the striking resemblance between Tibetan Lamaism and the Romish Church.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
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