different between monastery vs lamasery

English

Alternative forms

• monasterie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French monastere, from Latin monast?rium, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (monast?rion, “hermit's cell”), from ????? (mónos, “alone”). Doublet of minster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st??i/, /?m?n?st??i/

Noun

monastery (plural monasteries)

1. Building for housing monks or others who have taken religious vows

Related terms

• monasterial
• monastic
• monasticism

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See also

• abbey
• cloister
• convent
• friary
• minster

Anagrams

• asteronym, myronates, nasometry, oysterman

English

Alternative forms

• lamaserai

Etymology

From French lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la?ma?se?ry
• IPA^(key): /l??m??s??i/

Noun

lamasery (plural lamaseries)

1. (Buddhism) A monastery for lamas.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 490:

     purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.

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