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
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
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
The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact.
From Time Magazine Archive
For weeks she had been a prisoner in the lamasery, cloistered in a suite of well-furnished rooms and waited on by a close-cropped nun.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
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