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Definition of Lamaist
1. Noun. (Buddhism) an adherent of Lamaism.
Definition of Lamaist
1. n. One who believes in Lamaism.
Definition of Lamaist
1. Noun. One who believes in lamaism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamaist
Literary usage of Lamaist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Government: A Manual of Chinese Titles, Categorically Arranged by William Frederick Mayers (1886)
"TIBET AND THE lamaist HIERARCHY. 564-—TIBET, or Thibet, which the progress of
events during the last two centuries has converted into a dependency of the ..."
2. Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken. A Complete, Graphic, and Comparative by Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall (1883)
"THE lamaist HIHI.E. The Thibetan sacred books are called Kanjur. This contains
1083 works gathered in 180 folio volumes. These are divided into seven ..."
3. Gods and Devils of Mankind by Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall (1897)
"THE lamaist BIBLE. The Thibetan sacred books are called Kanjur. This contains
1083 works gathered in 180 folio volumes. These are divided into seven ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"—According to the precepts of Buddha, the lamaist clergy is supposed to live on
the alms of (he laity: in reality they possess immense wealth. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Politics has influenced the Church to declare the emperors of China and Russia
incarnations of lamaist saints; curiously, the king of England is not so ..."
6. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"Here he studied assiduously the Buddhistic law, and soon became convinced of the
necessity of reforming the actual worship and discipline of the lamaist ..."
7. The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and by Laurence Austine Waddell (1895)
"Now they number at least 20000, and contain more than 100000 souls, of which by
far the great majority ' retain the lamaist faith. ..."