lamasery
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.
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[edit]lamasery (plural lamaseries)
- (Buddhism) A monastery for lamas.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 490:
- purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.