Meanings of lamaism in English

And he applies to the lama for information on lamaism, and devil-dances, and spells and charms, several times in these few years.

Interesting man; Catholic, but knew a great deal about Buddhism and Lamaism.

The above pages refer to the history of Lamaism in Tibet and Mongolia.

Lamaism teaches final judgment before Eslik Khan and punishment, 624-u.

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

In short, she is the archetype of Lamaism.

This isolated table-land is the seat of a former Buddhism better known by the name of Lamaism.

Altogether the scene was solemn and impressive: as Campbell well expressed it, the genius of Lamaism reigned supreme.

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

But I do not live in Lassa, and my going to church here, is not akin to Lamaism.

In the doctrines of Lamaism also, we find, obscured, and partly concealed in fiction, fragments of the primitive truth.

The old Shamanism then apparently revived; nor was it till 1577 that the great reconversion of Mongolia to Lamaism began.

Much of the old superstition was absorbed into the new teaching, and the combination is known by the name of Lamaism.

The Lama Yonten's explanation was very recondite, and certainly liable to be misunderstood by someone not familiar with the tenets of Lamaism.

But greatest, if woeful, is the lesson taught by that phase of Buddhism, which has developed into Lamaism and its kindred cults.

The political and military decadence of the Mongols has been ascribed by some authors to Lamaism and to the substitution of priestly for warlike ideals.