Great Lama
Great Lama noun: the Dalai Lama.
Noun
Great Lama (plural Great Lamas)
- The Dalai Lama.
- These scarves are of various descriptions. The longest and the best ones are presented to the great lamas, high officials, and to other personages; they carry respect according to their quality, colour and length.1902, Sarat Chandra Das, “ཁ་བཏགས kha-ḇtags̠”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary With Sanskrit Synonyms, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt, page 128
- Having forded the river, they passed under this town up a little cross-valley, when they reached Deshi-ribgyal where the great lama was residing. The date was November 8th, 1774.1904, Graham Sandberg, The Exploration of Tibet, Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 105
- Synonyms:
- Grand Lama
Examples of Great Lama in a sentence
- When the Great Lama dies, the Buddhist authorities select his successor from the children in the country born at the time of his death, into one of whom his spirit has supposedly entered.1950, Willard L[eroy] King, Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice Of The United States 1888–1910, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- The other is the 'Great Lama', who resides in a citadel where he is 'removed from the bother of all extraneous affairs and enjoys leisure in the secret solitudes of his palace'.2008, Alexander Norman, Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 246:
Synonyms of Great Lama
Forms of Great Lama
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Questions about Great Lama
- What does Great Lama mean?
- Great Lama means the Dalai Lama.
- How do you use Great Lama in a sentence?
- When the Great Lama dies, the Buddhist authorities select his successor from the children in the country born at the time of his death, into one of whom his spirit has supposedly entered.
- What part of speech is Great Lama?
- Great Lama is a noun.
- What is the plural of Great Lama?
- The plural of Great Lama is Great Lamas.
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