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Mā lama is the Hawaiian value of caring and stewardship, and from what I personally know of 800-CEO-READ I am confident that they will be a worthy steward.īoveda brick, also known as "ladrillo de lama" is made for boveda building and it is a special kind of brick, it's size, ligth weight, and absortion rate is what makes it special for it's use in bovedas. 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. 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.Ī Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche 1983 Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 2 The Traditional Meaning of a Spiritual Teacher 2000 The original meaning of the term lama, then, is a highly advanced spiritual teacher. noun a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.See Lamaism.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. Until the Chinese occupied Tibet he resided in Lhasa, but now (1998) is in exile. It is based mainly on the rigorous intellectual disciplines of Madhyamika and Yogachara philosophy and utilizes the Tantric ritual practices that developed in Central Asia and particularly in. noun the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. Tibetan Buddhism, also called (incorrectly) Lamaism, branch of Vajrayana (Tantric, or Esoteric) Buddhism that evolved from the 7th century ce in Tibet.noun In Tibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.

Handbook).įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun A similar stuff of modern manufacture.noun A rich material made in Spain in the fifteenth century, described as a cloth of silver shaded and watered.It is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit word guru. noun A genus of Camelidæ of South America, including the llama, vicugna, alpaca, and guanaco: now called Auchenia. Lama: A Tibetan word which literally translates as heavy with qualities.noun In Samoa, the candlenut-tree ( Alcurites Moluccana) or its nut.noun A celibate priest or ecclesiastic belonging to that variety of Buddhism known as Lamaism.noun In Tibetan Buddhism, one who is a religious teacher or is in a position of authority in a monastic community.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.