What is "lohan"

Usage examples of "lohan".

Women were not allowed in the monastery: and though Doublet was disguised as a boy, the Shaolin monks who belonged to the Eighteen Lohan group had seen her on Wutai and knew that she was a girl, so she had remained behind when Trinket and the senior officers were escorted up the mountain.

A real lohan is a saintly monk who has given up the ghost while seated in the meditative mudra.

An exceptionally saintly lacquered lohan was admiring the diamond-encrusted imperial sceptre that the Ancestress had placed at his feet, and apparently he feared that the other funeral gifts might be defiled by demons.

Li Kao slipped from the bushes, and a lacquered lohan driften eerily through the mist.

Kao slipped from the bushes, and a lacquered lohan drifted eerily through the mist.

Everywhere I looked, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, and Lind-say Lohan stared back at me.

He was soon able to identify them as some of the Eighteen Shaolin Lohans whom he had seen in the temple behind the Pure Coolness Monastery.

The Eighteen Lohans glided closely behind him, hovering above the ground and moving at what seemed superhuman speed.

Eighteen Shaolin Lohans will surely catch you, and change you back into the fat little dwarf you once were.

He parried with his bare fists, and four more of the Lohans threw themselves into the fray.

Brother Cordial the eight Lohans moved their circle three feet further away from Fat Dhuta.

Once the Lohans were out of the way, he might easily revert to his former behaviour.

Within a few days, they arrived at the outskirts of Peking, and there the Lohans took their leave.

Fat Dhuta on Wutai, in full fighting form against the Eighteen Lohans, shivered to see him contemplating the possibility of suicide, rather than face the wrath of an unforgiving Leader.

He also told him about the attempt made by the Tibetan lamas to kidnap him and how he, Trinket, helped by the Eighteen Lohans from the Shaolin Monastery, had frustrated them.