Definition of "lama" []

• A Buddhist monk of Tibet or Mongolia. (noun)

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• "The original meaning of the term lama, then, is a highly advanced spiritual teacher."
• "Lama Zopa was not using the Tibetan word lama in one of its looser meanings as simply a monk or as merely a performer of rituals who has completed three years of intensive meditation practice."
• "In Sanskrit the word for lama is guru, which literally means heavy in the sense of being possessed of many great qualities leading to altruistic activities."