Meaning of Great Lama | Babel Free

Definitions

The Dalai Lama.

dated, uncommon

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Many Easterners persist in regarding Fuller's appointment to this high office as somewhat comparable to the selection of a Dalai Lama, the great religious ruler in Tibet. 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.”

“Kircher, following Grueber, states that there were two kings of Tibet. One of these is called the 'Deva' — i.e. the then regent. 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'.”

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