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Suri Lamas
Home of Greaseball and 10 suri Lama On 25 acres Stop by for visit
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Dalai Lama Teachings, UMS
Ph.D., Bachelors & Masters Degrees University of Metaphysical Sciences
UMSonline.org/CourseDescriptns.htm

la⋅ma

  [lah-muh]
–noun
a priest or monk in Lamaism.
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Origin:
1645–55; < Tibetan lama (sp. bla ma) lit., superior one (in Tibetan applied only to monks of high rank)
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Suri Lamas
Home of Greaseball and 10 suri Lama On 25 acres Stop by for visit
www.RossAlpacaRanch.com
Dalai Lama Teachings, UMS
Ph.D., Bachelors & Masters Degrees University of Metaphysical Sciences
UMSonline.org/CourseDescriptns.htm
la·ma   (lä'mə)   
n.  A Buddhist monk of Tibet or Mongolia.

[Tibetan bla-ma, the upper one, lama, from bla, superior.]
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Cultural Dictionary

lama [(lah-muh)]

In the Buddhism of Tibet, a monk or priest. The chief of the lamas is the Dalai Lama.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

lama 
"Buddhist priest of Mongolia or Tibet," 1654, from Tibetan blama "chief, high priest," with silent b-.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Lama

(Matt. 27:46), a Hebrew word meaning why, quoted from Ps. 22:1.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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