Definitions for chorten

chorten chor·ten

Spelling: [chawr-ten]
IPA: /ˈtʃɔr tɛn/

Chorten is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in chorten (cehnort).

Definitions for chorten

noun

  1. (in Tibet) a monument to a distinguished Buddhist, especially a lama.

Origin of chorten

1890-95; Tibetan chörten (spelling mchod rten)

Examples for chorten

I was told that the centre chorten had been built over a very bad demon, and that it kept him down.

Here, too, they were busy making clay images to bury under the chorten that they were building above the monastery.

The ostensible object of his journey was to visit the sacred chorten at Khatmandu and the shrines of Benares.

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