Definitions for Lamaism

Lamaism La·ma·ism

Spelling: [lah-muh-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈlɑ məˌɪz əm/

Lamaism is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in Lamaism (aailmms).

Definitions for Lamaism

noun

  1. the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia, a Mahayana form including non-Buddhist Indian elements as well as elements of the preexisting Bön shamanism.

Origin of Lamaism

First recorded in 1810-20; lama + -ism

Examples for Lamaism

Lamaism, a corrupt form of Buddhism, i. 312; founder of, 312; ii.

Yet Buddhism, especially Lamaism, acquired a new political importance.

They have easier work in every way, but still they are pilgrims on the way to one of the greatest centres of Lamaism.

He is also responsible for the re-introduction of Lamaism into Mongolia .

The main division is of course into Lamaism on one side and all remaining sects on the other.

Lamaism probably entered the country at this time, if not earlier.

It was about this time that the theory of successive incarnations which is characteristic of Lamaism was developed and defined.

But we have indeed, discovered that Lamaism has absorbed many of its elements.

The personality of the Living Buddha is double, just as everything in Lamaism is double.

But the political confusion which followed on his death was not due to the triumphant restoration of Lamaism.

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