They enter the lamasery when very young, and remain students for many years.
The high Lamas sell them to devotees, and one or more of these scarves is presented to those who leave a satisfactory oblation after visiting a lamasery and temple.
Both gifts were refused, as they said the lamasery was very wealthy, and the Pombo's position as an official did not allow him to carry a rifle.
A soldier did this with a blunt knife, and the Pombo rode up with it in his hands to the Lamasery to consult the oracle.
They enter the Lamasery when young, and remain students for many years.
They said the Lamasery was very rich, and the Pombo's position as an official did not allow him to carry a rifle.
Several Lamas came to call on me in the morning, and professed to be pleased to see us; in fact, they asked me to go and pay them a visit in the Lamasery and temple.
This was the monastery or lamasery we had come so far to see.
We avoided the village, on whose outskirts the lamasery lay, and made straight for the valley.
On the third day out from the lamasery we camped in a romantic Himalayan valley--a narrow, green glen, with a brawling stream running in white cataracts and rapids down its midst.
It seemed that of old time there was a Lamasery here, in which dwelt several hundred brethren.
When they emerged from it Muriel, her hair cropped almost to the scalp and her face stained a yellowish tint, was garbed as a boy-novice of a lamasery in the priestly dress, with a great rosary round her neck.
She stole carefully down to a side door of the lamasery chapel.
He was not satisfied by the tales told by the monks of the lamasery to account for Muriel's mysterious disappearance, which was that she had been carried off by devils.
Two buildings in the lamasery stand out conspicuously, one above and the other below the lamas' dwellings.
On the slope in front of the lamasery are terraced fields of wheat, barley and buckwheat, and pasture-lands for goats and yak.
Muli is much smaller than some of the huge lamaist establishments in other Tibetan states, where there are sometimes as many lamas collected in one lamasery as there are undergraduates at Oxford.
Davies, whose admirable survey and exploration work are well known, visited the Muli lamasery before me, but our routes only touched at that point.
Major Davies's map, again, places a lamasery named K'u-lu at almost the same spot.
Every lamasery has among its inmates one or two masons who are employed by such persons in carving the inscriptions.
Behind and above thelamasery is a forest, consisting mostly of oak-trees and coniferæ.
KHON The name of the third lamasery was given to me as Khon, but I observe that Mr Amundsen calls it Kang-u, and locates it half-way between Muli and the Yalung, almost due east.
The lamasery is built on the slope of a mountain on which the various buildings rise above one another tier upon tier.
One of them presides over the great lamasery in Peking.
Within the Muli lamasery the rules of the reformed sects of Lamaism are observed with fair strictness, and no woman is allowed under any pretence to enter its coenobitical precincts.
In the Lamasery at Kounboum, one single tea-general, without either butter or cakes, costs fifty ounces of silver, or about twenty pounds.
At the distance of a li from the Lamasery we found four Lamas, friends of Sandara, who had come to meet us.
These rumours became so substantially alarming, that the administrators of the Lamasery felt bound to adopt some measures on the subject.
Every day they came to us regularly, they read with attention the summary of the Christian religion, which we had composed at the Lamasery of Kounboum, and entreated us to tell them the "true prayers.
The Lamasery of Kounboum contains nearly 4,000 Lamas; its site is one of enchanting beauty.
The superior Lama of the Grand Lamasery of Kaldan, who was very much attached to the Tale-Lama, had suffered the same fate.
The Lamasery of Preboung (ten thousand fruits) is situate two leagues west of Lha-Ssa; it is built on the site of a lofty mountain.
We had heard a great deal about the little Lamasery of Tchogortan, which serves as a sort of country house and botanical garden for the Faculty of Medicine.
A Lama, with red, round face, came to meet us, and conducted us to the habitation which the administrator of the Lamasery had prepared for our reception.
After remaining for ten years at Lha-Ssa, in the Lamaseryof Sera, a longing for my country took possession of my thoughts; the Three Vales occupied my soul.
As much, however, as was visible proved that the fame of the Bathang Lamasery was justly deserved.
Mr. Cooper being admitted as witness against them, such a disposition on the part of their deities would appear to be only natural: “My arrival at the gates of the lamasery caused a great hubbub.
None of our missionaries were injured, and the ill fate of the lamas and their lamasery has had the fortunate effect of making the people look with still greater disfavor upon them.
None are ever killed, and their ranks are constantly swelled by the donations of the country people, who bring the chickens to the lamasery as religious offerings.
At first the intense glare stung Trent's eyes, but gradually he became accustomed to it and saw that they had emerged on the other side of the lamasery and were upon a gallery overlooking a huge amphitheater.
The villages generally consisted of a huddle of houses close to a spur of ground, upon the highest point of which a lamasery perched, like a laemmergier hovering over mulch and decay.
He had passed the crimson walls of the lamasery before he saw her--a slender shadow ahead in the dusk.
Towards one in the afternoon, we perceived a grand lamasery gracefully rising on the slope of a mountain, and, in another hour, we at last arrived at Urga, the capital of Mongolia.
Around the lamasery where they are sown broadcast from eighty to a hundred may be counted.
This Lamasery of Kunbum enjoys so great a reputation, that the worshippers of Buddha make pilgrimages to it from all parts of Mongolia, Tartary, and Tibet, and on the occasion of great festivals the confluence of strangers is immense.
In the North-eastern corner close to China is the Lamasery of Kunbum (Kumbum), where Tsong Khapa was born.
Before the great idol, and on the same level with it, is a gilt seat where the living Fo, the Grand Lama of the Lamasery is seated.
We entered the city by a broad street, which exhibited nothing remarkable except the large Lamasery, called, in common with the more celebrated establishment in the province of Chan-Si, the Lamasery of the Five Towers.
Thirty thousand Lamas dwell in the Lamasery itself, or in smaller Lamaseries erected about it.
Around the Lamasery rise, numerous and without order, towers or pyramids, slender and tapering, resting generally on huge bases, little in harmony with the tenuity of the constructions they support.
After quitting the Lamasery of Tchortchi, just as we were entering upon the Red Banner, we met a Mongol hunter, who was carrying behind him, on his horse, a fine roebuck he had just killed.
In one of his former lives he was Grand Lama of a splendid Lamasery in this vale, which was destroyed, according to the prayer-books, in the time of the wars of Tching-Kis.
The Lamas had dispersed, and people began to regard the very existence of the Lamasery as extremely compromised.
Our saint is not a mere man; you do not imagine, perhaps, that in our little Lamasery we have the happiness to possess a Chaberon, a living Buddha.
We believe that the child you have made superior of your Lamasery is destitute of all power.
She was the Queen of the Khalkhas repairing in pilgrimage to the famous Lamasery of the Five Towers, in the province of Chan-Si.
Brother," said we, "are we not going to journey together to the Lamaseryof Rache-Tchurin?
Far below on a yellow hillside hung the Kanjut Lamasery above Rinchengong.
There is a lamasery in the neighbourhood, where the birds are almost tame.
The nucleus of the Mongol settlement at Urga is the Great Lamasery of the Guison-tamba or Lama-king of the Mongols.
Some days before this we had picked up a young pilgrim, a lama, on a journey to the great lamasery at Urga, there to pass a certain time in study.
The Lamas about Litang had a further feud with the Chinese officials, who in the previous year seized the kenpu, or chief steward, of theirlamasery and chopped off his head.
There is a house or shed in Ourga near the Lamasery specially set apart for the dying, for it is considered the worst possible luck for a Mongol to die in his own tent.
The palace of the Kootookta and Lamasery or Buddhist monastery are the only buildings of any size or importance in Ourga.
Speaking of gods, I must not forget to mention the great lamasery at Turin, about one hundred and seventy miles from Urga.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamasery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
