Obs. [After F. lamanisme (Huc).] = LAMAISM. So Lamanical a. = LAMAIC.
1852. Blackw. Mag., LXXI. 339. The Tibetan portion … is inhabited by a rough race,… retaining many primitive superstitions beneath the engrafted Lamanism.
1852. W. Hazlitt, trans. Huc’s Tartary, I. 243. The foundation of the lamanical hierarchy, framed in imitation of the pontifical court. Ibid., 252. It is with this view [of enfeebling the strength of the Mongol princes] … that they [the Emperors] patronise lamanism.
