Lamasery

The matter of discipline in the lamasery is a serious one. ❋ Unknown (1901)

[Page 209] 12 This lamasery is also known as Gomba Soma. ❋ Unknown (1901)

The office in the Kumbum lamasery is held for varying periods of time, depending partly on the incumbent's efficiency, but more perhaps on the number of his influential friends. ❋ Unknown (1901)

I may say in passing that the lamasery is rightly located by Mr.W. W. Rockhill in his "Land of the Lamas" and that Capt. ❋ Unknown (1901)

He had indeed a greater surprise in store for us than the privilege of paying him a visit, for he told us very cordially that his own home in the lamasery was at our disposal, and bade us move our goods at once to his apartments and take up our abode there until the rebellion was over. ❋ Unknown (1901)

In the absence of the Chinese official the abbot of the lamasery was almost supreme in authority, but my desire to personally interview him did not prevail against the stringent laws forbidding women to enter the lamasery except once, annually, for the purpose of worship; so my conferences were carried on through my Mongol friend, for such he assuredly proved himself to be. ❋ Unknown (1901)

The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Midway in the story the head lama of the Shangri-La "lamasery" tells Conway the story of a Capuchin monk who, traveling from Peking south-west by Lanchow and the Kokonor for some months, accidentally stumbles onto the valley of the Blue Moon where Shangri-La is located. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alobar had been at the lamasery twenty years when Kudra arrived, dressed as a boy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One thing about moving out of a Tibetan Buddhist lamasery, you don't have to hire a cart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless she is mistaken, it is Fosco, the calligrapher from the Samye lamasery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alobar had been introduced to the virtues o" slow, relaxed breathin" at Samye lamasery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His stay at the lamasery had become a rut, a tranquil, nourishing, educational rut that had done him little harm and much good, but a rut, nonetheless; his wheel was stuck in a ditch of light, so to speak, and he felt an overpowering urge to steer in the direction of darkness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SHE traveled in Tibet and one day arrived at Doji lamasery. ❋ Paul (2010)

A tale about a Martian woman who discovers scientific anomalies in a Tibetan lamasery, here are the opening lines of “The Wheel of Samsara”: ❋ Paul (2010)

The floor of the valley, hazily distant, welcomed the eye with greenness, sheltered from the winds and surveyed rather than dominated by the lamasery. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)