lamasery
Americannoun
plural
lamaseriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of lamasery
First recorded in 1865–70, lamasery is from the French word lamaserie.
Example Sentences
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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
When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
In four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the High Lama's torchlit funeral procession winds across the lamasery, they flee into the cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the monastery or lamasery we had come so far to see.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
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