lamasery

plural lamaseries · alternative lamasary · alternative lamaserai · alternative lamastery · alternative lamestery

1. BuddhismA monastery for lamas.

   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, published 2007, page 490