Great Lama

English Noun Great Lama en uncommon dated The Dalai Lama. en Grand Lama en w:Sarat Chandra Das ཁ་བཏགས ''kha-ḇtags̠ A Tibetan-English Dictionary With Sanskrit Synonyms Calcutta Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt 1902 128 https://archive.org/details/tibetanenglishdi00dassuoft/page/128/mode/1up These scarves are of various descriptions. The longest and the best ones are presented to the great lamas, high officials, and to other personages; they carry respect according to their quality, colour and length. en Graham Sandberg The Exploration of Tibet, Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904 Calcutta Thacker, Spink & Co 1904 105 https://archive.org/details/explorationtibe00sandgoog/page/n124/mode/1up Having forded the river, they passed under this town up a little cross-valley, when they reached Deshi-ribgyal where the great lama was residing. The date was November 8th, 1774. en Willard L[eroy] King Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice Of The United States 1888–1910 New York, N.Y. w:The Macmillan Company 1950 98 https://archive.org/details/melvillewestonfu017744mbp/page/n125/mode/1up Many Easterners persist in regarding Fuller's appointment to this high office as somewhat comparable to the selection of a Dalai Lama, the great religious ruler in Tibet. When the Great Lama dies, the Buddhist authorities select his successor from the children in the country born at the time of his death, into one of whom his spirit has supposedly entered. en Alexander Norman Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama London w:Little, Brown 2008 246 https://archive.org/details/holderofwhitelot0000norm/page/246/mode/1up 978-0-316-85988-2 Kircher, following Grueber, states that there were two kings of Tibet. One of these is called the 'Deva' — i.e. the then regent. The other is the 'Great Lama', who resides in a citadel where he is 'removed from the bother of all extraneous affairs and enjoys leisure in the secret solitudes of his palace'. References lama 105207 n.1 1 Grand (also Great) Lama 1339898100 n en Titles