Lamas in a sentence

His second Regent Demo Tulku was the biographer of the 8th and 9th Dalai Lamas and though the 9th died at the age of 9 his biography is as lengthy as those of many of the early Dalai Lamas.

Stein 1972, p.84-5 The most dynamic and prolific of the early Dalai Lamas, he composed more literary works than all the other Dalai Lamas combined.

Andrew Lamas, an urban studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that Mr. Mamdani’s proposal was laudable, but that the logistics of running grocery stores were complicated and the city should examine different models like cooperatives.

So, Communist Party is interfering in selecting the Lamas.

According to reports,Garcia-Lamas was stopped on Interstate 20 for allegedly driving 91 mph in a 70 mph zone.

Over the centuries the Tibetan lords and lamas had seen the Chinese come and go and had enjoyed good relations with them.

After the Revolution, most of the lamas were loyal to Soviet power.

All Dalai Lamas from the 3rd on were found with the help of such visions granted to regents.

Apart from the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, there were 13 other reincarnating high lamas, called 'seal-holding saints' (tamgatai khutuktu), in Outer Mongolia.

A student may have taken teachings from many authorities and revere them all as lamas in this general sense.

At 17, when fighting broke out in Lhasa between Gelug and Kagyu parties and efforts by local lamas to mediate failed, Sonam Gyatso negotiated a peaceful settlement.

During this time the practice of using a Dzong both as a religious centre for lamas and administrative centre for civic administration was introduced.

Finally, from the Buddhist point of view, Mullin says, "Simply stated, these four Dalai Lamas died young because the world did not have enough good karma to deserve their presence".

From then on and until today, unless on tour or in exile the Dalai Lamas have always spent their winters at the Potala Palace and their summers at the Norbulingka palace and park.

He includes Chachapoyas and Lamas in North Peruvian Quechua so Ecuadorian is synonymous with Northern Quechua.

High Lamas may also claim to have a vision by a dream or if the Dalai Lama was cremated, they will often monitor the direction of the smoke as an 'indication' of the direction of the imagined rebirth.

It was the ambition and greed for power of Tibetans that led to five successive Dalai Lamas being subjected to continuous tutelage.

Mullin 2001, p.111 That year he saw visions in the lake and 'empowered' it to impart clues to help identify incarnate lamas.

Once the High Lamas have found the home and the boy they believe to be the reincarnation, the boy undergoes tests to ceremoniously legitimize the rebirth.

There the term used was "lamaism" (literally, "doctrine of the lamas": lama jiao) to distinguish it from a then traditional Chinese form (fo jiao).