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Definition of Grand lama
1. Noun. Chief lama and once ruler of Tibet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grand Lama
Literary usage of Grand lama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"EASTERN MYTHOLOGY —ZOROASTER —HINDU MYTHOLOGY — CASTES — BUDDHA — grand lama.
ZOROASTER. OUR knowledge of the religion of the ancient Persians is ..."
2. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... and he, as Buddha, Gautama, foe—in the form of a departed teacher, and in the
living form of the grand lama—receives divine worship. ..."
3. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"THE grand lama IN HIS FULL DRESS, .AND LAMA OF THE TARTAR BANNERS. IHE number of
priests, or Bonzes, who reside within the Chinese empire, may amount to a ..."
4. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"... is this : the cap of state which the grand lama of Tibet wears, is made at
London, and cost four thousand piastres; a new one is sent every year. ..."
5. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"After which he gave his kingdom to the grand lama, ... Han continued to protect
the grand lama, in the manner above related ; yet, according to ..."
6. Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of by Clements Robert Markham, George Bogle, Thomas Manning (1879)
"The T/-mu-fu was in the hall with the grand lama. ... Having delivered the scarf
to the grand lama, I took off my hat, and humbly gave him my clean- shaved ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"grand lama, supported no doubt by the people, murdered the prime minister.
The Chinese interfered, imprisoned the Lama, and appointed a regent. ..."
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