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lama
[ lah-muh ]
lama
/ ˈlɑːmə /
noun
- a priest or monk of Lamaism
Word History and Origins
Origin of lama1
Word History and Origins
Origin of lama1
Example Sentences
Besides, the Dalai Lama had already laughed about its improbability.
Though he currently lives in India, the Dalai Lama has told Vreeland that he must return someday to live as a monk in America.
On the one hand, the Dalai Lama is, as he describes himself, “a Buddhist monk.”
Goyeneche practices yoga and follows the Dalai Lama on Twitter.
Sometimes the wishful thinking was done by well-known individuals—the Dalai Lama and Ralph Bunche.
His influence is hardly so great as it used to be, still he is the great Brahmin and the grand Lama of the locality.
Outside was a rude altar made of stones from the river-bed, where a Lama was burning incense and chanting prayers.
Then he continued his questions, asking much about the Lama, and the customs and religion of his people.
They only knew that the lama who had been walled in for sixty-nine years had wished to see the sun again before he died.
The Linga monks said that an ordinary lama, when he dies, is cut in pieces and abandoned to the birds.
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