¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gompas
1. gompa [n] - See also: gompa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gompas
Literary usage of Gompas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Summer Ride Through Western Tibet by Jane E. Duncan (1906)
"There are hundreds of manis and chortens on the roadsides, particularly near
villages or gompas (monasteries), and the more influential the gompas are the ..."
2. Tibet and the Tibetans by Graham Sandberg (1906)
"To emphasize the sanctity of Ma-pang and the importance of the work of
circumambulation, no fewer than eight gompas or monasteries have been erected at ..."
3. Central Asia and Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1903)
"There were about three hundred lamas attached to the monastery, and most of them
spent the winter at other gompas or monasteries, and at Leh. ..."
4. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts by Roscoe Pound (1917)
"Donnelly, 0 QBD 307 (select committee of House of Commons) ; gompas v. White, 6
TLR 20; Watson v. Jones, [1905] AC 480 (privilege extends to statement to ..."
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