The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lama \La"ma\, n. [Tibet. blama (pronounced l["a]"ma) a chief, a high priest.] In Tibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.
The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama [lit., Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. Until the Chinese occupied Tibet he resided in Lhasa, but now (1998) is in exile. See Lamaism.
Usage examples of "the grand lama".
The Kutukhtus stand in the same relation to the Grand Lama as the cardinals, or perhaps more nearly the cardinal-legates, to the pope.
By idolatry is here meant the religion generally known as that of the grand lama, or spiritual sovereign, whom his followers believe to be immortal, by means of successive regeneration of the same individual in different bodies, but do not worship, as has been supposed.
The Atheist, The Shakers, The Infidel, The Millerites, The Agnostic, The Mormons, The Baptist, The Laurence Oliphant The Methodist, Harrisites, The Catholic, and the other The Grand Lama's people, 115 Christian sects, the The Monarchists, Presbyterian excepted, The Imperialists, The 72 Mohammedan sects, The Democrats, The Buddhist, The Republicans (but not The Blavatsky-Buddhist, the Mugwumps), The Nationalist, The Mind-Curists, The Confucian, The Faith-Curists, The Spiritualist, The Mental Scientists, The 2,000 East Indian The Allopaths, sects, The Homeopaths, The Peculiar People .
Aunt Ablewhite would listen to the Grand Lama of Thibet exactly as she listens to Me, and would reflect his views quite as readily as she reflects mine.