Sentences with lama
la·ma
L l - It takes twenty to twenty-five years of study and meditation to qualify as a lama.
- No doubt, becoming a student involves finding an appropriate teacher, irrespective of whether that teacher is a bhante, lama, rinpoche, sensei or roshi.
- The Jewel Heart centers have a humanitarian wing that provides financial assistance to young Tibetan lamas at monasteries-in-exile in India.
- The boy also stands to gain tremendous knowledge and support from a number of leading lamas, including the Dalai Lama, who have made India their home.
- Venerable Lama Samten is one of the resident lamas at Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery, Kaukapakapa, New Zealand.
- I remember my father and other members of the older generation of Tibetan lamas saying that they didn't blame the Communist Chinese for the destruction of Tibet.
- It is important that they both pray to the Three Jewels, their root and lineage lamas and their deities, chiefly Palden Lhamo and other Dharma protectors, for a clear answer.
- The high-frequency sounds of the maraca have been used by American Indian shamans for healing and by Tibetan lamas to uplift the soul.
- Puman was taken to India at the age of six to be trained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, while his parents stayed in Taiwan.
- So the ceremony actually involved five monks - it involved a Sri Lankan monk, a Burmese monk, a Thai monk, a Tibetan lama and an Australian monk.
- Children are usually identified as having specific traits indicative of a reincarnated lama, then tested further to prove their identity.
- All others are totally lacking in freedom, because they must subordinate their will to that of the patriarch, lama, emperor, pharaoh, or whatever else the despot may be called.
- And one question was at least in Tibetan Buddhism, people are expected to learn things at different stages, and the master, the lama, sort of validates in a sense, that the pupil, the disciple, has moved to another level.
- It is even, at times, hard to imagine that Rinpoche is an incarnate lama who spent fourteen of his first nineteen years in rigorous monastic training in Old Tibet.
- This lama mastered all of the teachings of the Dro clan, including the Kalachakra.
- Authorization as a lama usually comes directly from one's teachers and is often not given until the recipient has completed much practice and study.
- She was very much like a Zen monk, or a lama, or my guru.
- Ricard, himself a Buddhist lama, is the French translator for the Dalai Lama and has photographed life in Tibet and Nepal for 30 years.
- The young Buddhist leader is the first lama whose authority is recognized both by China and the Dalai Lama.
- Whether a lama is recognized as the incarnation of a previous master is not paramount to Tibetans.
- Another heroic figure of Bhutan is Shabdrung, the lama who assumed the title of Dharma Raja in the seventeenth century and laid the political foundations of Bhutan State.