Grand Lama
Grand Lama noun: the Dalai Lama.
Noun
Grand Lama (plural Grand Lamas)
- The Dalai Lama.
- It was through this person, whose family held the office of high priest to the kings of Thibet for ten generations, that the succession of the ancient Buddhist patriarchs was continued, and that of Grand Lamas commenced; and it was also since his time that Lamaism, or reformed Buddhism, became the...1857, M. L'Abbé [Évariste Régis] Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, page 286
- The Buddhist natives of Tibet hold the grand Lama to be always the same person, the same Buddha, only re-incarnated or renovated, in a new mundane case or body; and Jesus Christ was considered by some Christians to be a renewed incarnation of both Adam and Noah; and this was one of the reasons for...1887, Marie [Sinclair], Countess of Caithness, The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of All Religions, 3rd edition, London: C. L. H. Wallace, page 368
- Synonyms:
- Great Lama
Examples of Grand Lama in a sentence
- The Tibetans believe that when a Grand Lama dies, his soul is reincarnated in a child born at about the time of his death.1947 April, Ethel N. Brown, “Lamaism”, in The Green Caldron, volume 16, number 4, Urbana, I.L.: University of Illinois, →OCLC, page 25:
- At that time, Ladakh was an independent kingdom under the suzerainty of the Grand Lamas of Tibet.1991, Jagmohan [Malhotra], My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir, New Delhi […]: Allied Publishers Limited, page 68:
Synonyms of Grand Lama
Forms of Grand Lama
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Questions about Grand Lama
- What does Grand Lama mean?
- Grand Lama means the Dalai Lama.
- How do you use Grand Lama in a sentence?
- The Tibetans believe that when a Grand Lama dies, his soul is reincarnated in a child born at about the time of his death.
- What part of speech is Grand Lama?
- Grand Lama is a noun.
- What is the plural of Grand Lama?
- The plural of Grand Lama is Grand Lamas.
Words near Grand Lama in the dictionary
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