lamaism

• Lamaism

From lama +‎ -ism.

lamaism (uncountable)

1. (dated, potentially offensive) Synonym of Tibetan Buddhism.

• Common through the racist and imperialist 19th and early 20th centuries, the term is now avoided by scholars of Buddhism for its negative associations and implicit judgment that Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism are impure forms that require a name separate from Buddhism proper.

• Dalai-Lamaism
• lamaist, lamaistic

• almamis, miasmal

Borrowed from French lamaïsme. By surface analysis, lama +‎ -ism.

• IPA^(key): /la.maˈism/
• Rhymes: -ism
• Hyphenation: la‧ma‧ism

lamaism n (uncountable)

1. lamaism, Tibetan Buddhism

• “lamaism”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025