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lamaseries

n. (plural of lamasery English)

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Once the Guild had given steady birth to a marmoreal populace which took up residence in the gardens and grottos of the rich, the lamaseries and monkeries of the hills, the municipal prayer booths and public parks.

There were several lamaseries on the Wutai Mountains and hundreds of lamas.

In some, as among the Kalmuks and the Burials of Siberia and in the lamaseries of Mongolia, the czars and Chinese chieftains have sought to destroy the power of the yogis by placing their own men as heads of the monasteries there.

So, too, were the lamaseries of Manchuria, because they failed to keep their existence secret.

Or perhaps the building was not as much like a castle as it was like the lamaseries which stood atop many a mountain in this land and in neighboring Tibet.

Even Buddhist Agharta was supposed to be connected by tunnels to the lamaseries of Tibet.

In those confused, horrible days, when the snowy peaks of ancient Tibet were crimson with the flames of burning lamaseries and scarlet with the blood of murdered sages, the book was lost.