Grand Lama

noun

the chief monk and ruler of Tibet: called the Dalai Lama since the middle of the 17th century.

Grand Lama

First recorded in 1930–35

His influence is hardly so great as it used to be, still he is the great Brahmin and the grand Lama of the locality.

When the Grand Lama dies, they wait till a successor is made known to them.

The Pope they found under the title of the Grand Lama, a sucking child surrounded by an immense number of priests.

He is moreover interrogated concerning the habits of the defunct Grand Lama, and the principal particulars of his death.

When a Grand Lama takes his departure, that is to say when he dies, the event is no subject for mourning to the community.

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