"Dalai lama" Quotes from Famous Books
... to the dignity of chief pontiff of the sect. A separate province was assigned to him as his own territory, and besides his spiritual dignity, he became to a limited extent a temporal monarch. He is styled the Dalai Lama. ... — TITLE • AUTHOR
... at its head a Grand Lama, not to be confounded with the Dalai Lama of Lhassa, who is believed, or rather supposed, to have an immortal soul transmigrating ... — An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor |