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lama

/lah-muh/US // ˈlɑ mə //UK // (ˈlɑːmə) //

喇嘛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a priest or monk in Lamaism.

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Examples

  • Besides, the Dalai Lama had already laughed about its improbability.

  • Though he currently lives in India, the Dalai Lama has told Vreeland that he must return someday to live as a monk in America.

  • On the one hand, the Dalai Lama is, as he describes himself, “a Buddhist monk.”

  • Goyeneche practices yoga and follows the Dalai Lama on Twitter.

  • Sometimes the wishful thinking was done by well-known individuals—the Dalai Lama and Ralph Bunche.

  • His influence is hardly so great as it used to be, still he is the great Brahmin and the grand Lama of the locality.

  • Outside was a rude altar made of stones from the river-bed, where a Lama was burning incense and chanting prayers.

  • Then he continued his questions, asking much about the Lama, and the customs and religion of his people.

  • They only knew that the lama who had been walled in for sixty-nine years had wished to see the sun again before he died.

  • The Linga monks said that an ordinary lama, when he dies, is cut in pieces and abandoned to the birds.