lamasery
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.
Pronunciation
Noun
lamasery (plural lamaseries)
- (Buddhism) A monastery for lamas.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 490: