In Tibetan Buddhism, one who is a religious teacher or is in a position of authority in a monastic community.

Lama is a poetic Arabic girl's name that means: lips that are dark like the color of sunset. Simply, it means beautiful lips and angelic pure face. It has been used in old Arabic poetry to refer to the lips of the beloved. A popular name in the Levant region of the Middle East. Girls with th...

A Buddhist priest in Tibet or MongoliaExamples from the Corpuslama• It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape.• Drepung Loseling lamas will simultaneously begin construction of a Medicine Buddha sand mandala.Origin lama.