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  • Lhalung Monastery
  • Lhalung Monastery, Lhalun Monastery or Lalung Monastery (also known as the Sarkhang or Golden Temple), was one of the earliest monasteries founded in Spiti

    Lhalung Monastery

    Lhalung Monastery

    Lhalung_Monastery

  • Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh
  • legendary 108 monasteries; only a few of these have survived in Himachal Pradesh namely, the Lhalung Monastery, Nako Gompa in Spiti and Tabo Monastery in Spiti

    Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh

    Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh

    Buddhism_in_Himachal_Pradesh

  • Spiti
  • River valley in Himachal Pradesh, India

    statue Lhalung Monastery (Serkhang Monastery) Losar Mane Gogma and Mane Yogma villages Mud village Pin Valley National Park Tabo Caves and Tabo Monastery Spiti

    Spiti

    Spiti

    Spiti

  • Gangteng Monastery
  • Buddhist monastery in Bhutan

    landslide in the opposite hill. A renowned artisan of the Umze of Lhalung Monastery in Tibet was specially brought from Tibet to head as the zowpon to

    Gangteng Monastery

    Gangteng Monastery

    Gangteng_Monastery

  • Tamzhing Monastery
  • Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Bumthang District, Bhutan

    monks from Lhalung monk body headed by Lhalung's second in command, Thinley Kuenchap (d. 1975) came to Tamshing to reestablish the Lhalung monk body at

    Tamzhing Monastery

    Tamzhing Monastery

    Tamzhing_Monastery

  • Lahaul and Spiti district
  • District in Himachal Pradesh, India

    are some of the main tourist attractions. In Spiti, the Kaza, Dhankar, Lhalung, Kunzum Pass, Losar, Kye, Kibber, and Pin Valley are some of the main tourist

    Lahaul and Spiti district

    Lahaul and Spiti district

    Lahaul_and_Spiti_district

  • List of Buddhist temples in India
  • Gandhola Monastery Gemur Monastery Kardang Monastery Key Monastery Kibber Kungri Monastery Lhalung Monastery Namgyal Monastery Rewalsar Shashur Monastery Tabo

    List of Buddhist temples in India

    List_of_Buddhist_temples_in_India

  • Kaza, Himachal Pradesh
  • Town in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Sakya Tangyud monastery; built in the year 2009, Sakya Tangyud monastery is situated in Kaza town of Spiti Valley. Key (Ki) Monastery was built by Dromton

    Kaza, Himachal Pradesh

    Kaza, Himachal Pradesh

    Kaza,_Himachal_Pradesh

  • Langdarma
  • 8th Tibetan Emperor and 41st King of Tibet (d.842)

    China, Afghanistan, and India. He was assassinated by a Buddhist monk Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje. Earlier in his life as a Tibetan prince, Langdarma was Buddhist

    Langdarma

    Langdarma

  • Tabo, Himachal Pradesh
  • Town and village in Himachal Pradesh, India

    the sub-divisional headquarters of Spiti. The town surrounds a Buddhist monastery which, according to legend, is said to be over a thousand years old. The

    Tabo, Himachal Pradesh

    Tabo, Himachal Pradesh

    Tabo,_Himachal_Pradesh

  • Padmasambhava
  • 8th-century Buddhist lama

    Yeshe De (Tibetan: ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ, Wylie: zhang ye shes sde) Lhalung Pelgi Dorje, Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje (Tibetan: ལྷ་ལུང་དཔལ་གྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ, Wylie: lha lung

    Padmasambhava

    Padmasambhava

    Padmasambhava

  • Yarlung dynasty
  • Historical dynasty in Tibet

    Pre-Imperial Tibet. Indiana University PhD Dissertation. Arthur Mandelbaum, "Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje", Treasury of Lives, 2007. R A Stein,Tibetan Civilization

    Yarlung dynasty

    Yarlung dynasty

    Yarlung_dynasty

  • Cham dance
  • Traditional Buddhist dance

    assassination of the cruel Tibetan king, Langdarma in 841 CE by a monk called Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje. The monk, dressed in a black robe and a black hat, danced

    Cham dance

    Cham dance

    Cham_dance

  • Pema Lingpa
  • Bhutanese Buddhist saint (1450–1521)

    "Tamzhing Monastery". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2025-03-02. Gangteng Literary Committee (2008), p. 15. Harding (2003), p. 138. "H.E Lhalung Sungtrul

    Pema Lingpa

    Pema Lingpa

    Pema_Lingpa

  • Yerpa
  • Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Lhasa, Tibet, China

    considered to be one of his three most important places of attainment. After Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje assassinated the anti-Buddhist Bon Emperor Langdarma in 842

    Yerpa

    Yerpa

    Yerpa

  • Gendün Rinchen
  • 69th Je Khenpo of Bhutan

    name Gendün Rinchen. When he was twenty-seven he travelled to Lhodrak Lhalung, center of the tradition of Padma Lingpa in Southern Tibet. There he studied

    Gendün Rinchen

    Gendün_Rinchen

  • Era of Fragmentation
  • Period of Tibetan history (9th–11th centuries CE)

    assassinated in 842 possibly by a Buddhist hermit monk named Pelgyi Dorje of Lhalung, or other sources state he died from fright. The death left two possible

    Era of Fragmentation

    Era of Fragmentation

    Era_of_Fragmentation

  • Palden Lhamo
  • Female Tibetan Buddhist deity

    future damage by humans and mamo demons!' She is also said to have advised Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje to kill the anti-Buddhist king Langdarma in 841 CE, and is

    Palden Lhamo

    Palden Lhamo

    Palden_Lhamo

  • Jispa
  • Village in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Jispa

    Jispa

    Jispa

  • Kyelang
  • Town in Himachal Pradesh, India

    above sea level. Kyelang faces the famous Kardang Monastery, the largest and most important monastery in Lahaul, of the Drukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism

    Kyelang

    Kyelang

    Kyelang

  • Sissu
  • Town in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Sissu

    Sissu

    Sissu

  • Chandra Taal
  • Lake in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Chandra Taal

    Chandra Taal

    Chandra_Taal

  • Darcha
  • Village in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Darcha

    Darcha

    Darcha

  • Suraj Tal
  • Lake in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Suraj Tal

    Suraj Tal

    Suraj_Tal

  • Rohtang Pass
  • Mountain pass

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Rohtang Pass

    Rohtang Pass

    Rohtang_Pass

  • Orgyen Kusum Lingpa
  • Tibetan Buddhist terton (1934–2009)

    Lingpa's previous incarnations include the Mahasiddha Drilbupa in India and Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje, the heart disciple of Guru Rinpoche Padma Sambhava in Tibet

    Orgyen Kusum Lingpa

    Orgyen Kusum Lingpa

    Orgyen_Kusum_Lingpa

  • Bhaba Pass
  • Mountain pass in India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Bhaba Pass

    Bhaba Pass

    Bhaba_Pass

  • Mane villages, Spiti
  • Twin villages in Spiti valley, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jispa Sissu Tinno Kaza Tabo Monasteries Dhankar Gandhola Gemur Gozzangwa Guru Ghantal Kardang Key Kibber Kungri Lhalung Shashur Tabo Tangyud Tayul Gyuto

    Mane villages, Spiti

    Mane villages, Spiti

    Mane_villages,_Spiti

  • Tinno, Lahaul
  • Village in Himachal Pradesh, India

    Rinpoche) in the monastery which is being worshiped by the villagers. Water is being collected drop by drop in Zong Gompa(monastery) tinno. This water

    Tinno, Lahaul

    Tinno, Lahaul

    Tinno,_Lahaul

  • Tibetan Empire
  • Power in East Asia from 618 to 842/848

    March 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2021 – via Reed.edu. Arthur Mandelbaum, "Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje", Treasury of Lives Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall

    Tibetan Empire

    Tibetan Empire

    Tibetan_Empire

  • Manjushri
  • Bodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhism

    Mañjuśrī in Xiantong Temple at Mount Wutai, China Mañjuśrīmitra Manjusri Monastery Washing the Elephant Keown, Damien (editor) with Hodge, Stephen; Jones

    Manjushri

    Manjushri

    Manjushri

  • Nyingma Gyubum
  • Collection of Vajrayana texts

    Gangteng-A and -B, and Drametse form one line of descent, all from a Lhalung original. The Rigzin, Tingkye, Kathmandu and Nubri versions all hail from

    Nyingma Gyubum

    Nyingma Gyubum

    Nyingma_Gyubum

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  • Kitchen
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Kitchen

    English and Scottish : from Middle English kychene ‘kitchen’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was in charge of the kitchen of a monastery or great house.Scottish and northern Irish : variant of McCutcheon.

    Kitchen

  • Freer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Freer

    English : from Old French and Middle English frere ‘friar’ (Latin frater, literally ‘brother’). This was a status name for a member a religious order, especially a mendicant order, and may also have been a nickname for a pious person or for someone employed at a monastery.Americanized spelling of French Frère (see Frere).North German and Dutch : cognate of Friedrich.

    Freer

  • Halling
  • Surname or Lastname

    English (Gloucestershire)

    Halling

    English (Gloucestershire) : habitational name from Hawling in Gloucestershire or possibly from Halling in Kent. Halling was named in Old English as ‘family or followers of a man called Heall’; Hawling may have the same etymology or it may have meant ‘people from Hallow’ (a place in Worcestershire named in Old English with halh + haga ‘enclosure’), or ‘people at the nook of land’, Old English halh (see Hale 1).German : variant of Häling (see Haling).

    Halling

  • Rideout
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Rideout

    English : occupational name for an outrider, from Middle English rid(en) ‘to ride’ + out ‘out’, ‘forth’. An outrider (Middle English outridere) was an officer of a sheriff’s court or of a monastery whose duties included riding out to collect dues and supervise manors.

    Rideout

  • Santry
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Santry

    English : from Middle English, Old French seintuarie ‘sanctuary’, ‘shrine’ (Late Latin sanctuarium, a derivative of sanctus ‘holy’); a topographic name for someone who lived near a shrine, or a nickname for someone who had had occasion to take sanctuary in a church or monastery, where he would have been afforded immunity from arrest or injury.

    Santry

  • Porter
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Porter

    English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.

    Porter

  • Hugh
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Hugh

    English : from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England.In Ireland and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames (see for example McCoy).

    Hugh

  • Hinton
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Hinton

    English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hēan (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hīwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.

    Hinton

  • Spencer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Spencer

    English : occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.

    Spencer

  • Storer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Storer

    English and Scottish : from an agent derivative of Middle English stor ‘provisions’, ‘supplies’, hence an occupational name for an official in charge of dispensing provisions in a great house or monastery, or who collected rents paid in kind. The word stor was also used in the Middle Ages for livestock, and the surname may sometimes have denoted a keeper of animals.South German : from a Bavarian dialect word, storer, denoting an unskilled workman, i.e. someone who was not a member of a craft guild.

    Storer

  • Galpin
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Galpin

    English : occupational name for a messenger or scullion (in a monastery), from Old French galopin ‘page’, ‘turnspit’, from galoper ‘to gallop’.

    Galpin

  • Shalang
  • Boy/Male

    Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu

    Shalang

    Emperor

    Shalang

  • Winthrop
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Winthrop

    English : habitational name from places in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire called Winthorpe. The former is named with the Old English personal name or byname Wine, meaning ‘friend’, + Old Norse þorp ‘settlement’. In the latter the first element is a contracted form of the Old English personal name Wigmund, composed of the elements wīg ‘war’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse equivalent, Vígmundr.John Winthrop (1588–1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He kept a detailed journal, an invaluable source for historians. He was born into a family of Suffolk, England, gentry whose fortunes were founded by his grandfather Adam Winthrop (d. 1562) of Lavenham. In 1544 the latter acquired a 500-acre estate that had been part of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds. John Winthrop emigrated from Groton, Suffolk, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630 because of Charles I’s anti-Puritan policies. By the time of his death he had had four wives and 16 children, the most notable of whom was his son John (1606–76), a scientist and governor of CT. His descendants were prominent in politics and science, including John Winthrop (1714–79), an astronomer, and Robert Winthrop (1809–94), a senator and speaker of the House of Representatives.

    Winthrop

  • Purchase
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Purchase

    English : metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining the supplies required by a monastery or manor house, from Anglo-Norman French purchacer ‘to acquire or buy’ (Old French pourchacier, from chacier ‘to chase or catch’ + the intensive prefix p(o)ur, Latin pro).

    Purchase

  • Jewell
  • Surname or Lastname

    English (of Breton or Cornish origin)

    Jewell

    English (of Breton or Cornish origin) : from a Celtic personal name, Old Breton Iudicael, composed of elements meaning ‘lord’ + ‘generous’, ‘bountiful’, which was borne by a 7th-century saint, a king of Brittany who abdicated and spent the last part of his life in a monastery. Forms of this name are found in medieval records not only in Devon and Cornwall, where they are of native origin, but also in East Anglia and even Yorkshire, whither they were imported by Bretons after the Norman Conquest.

    Jewell

  • Shalang | ஷாலஂக
  • Boy/Male

    Tamil

    Shalang | ஷாலஂக

    Emperor

    Shalang | ஷாலஂக

  • Galler
  • Surname or Lastname

    German

    Galler

    German : patronymic from a personal name (Latin Gallus) which was widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages (see Gall 2).German : nickname for someone in the service of the monastery of St Gallen, or a habitational name for someone from the city in Switzerland so named.English : variant of Gallier.Hungarian (Gallér) : from gallér ‘collar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a taylor, in particular a maker of military garments.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Galle ‘bile’, ‘gall’, with the agent suffix -er. This surname seems to have been one of the group of names selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials.

    Galler

  • Keller
  • Surname or Lastname

    German

    Keller

    German : from Middle High German kellaere ‘cellarman’, ‘cellar master’ (Latin cellarius, denoting the keeper of the cella ‘store chamber’, ‘pantry’). Hence an occupational name for the overseer of the stores, accounts, or household in general in, for example, a monastery or castle. Kellers were important as trusted stewards in a great household, and in some cases were promoted to ministerial rank. The surname is widespread throughout central Europe.English : either an occupational name for a maker of caps or cauls, from Middle English kellere, or an occupational name for an executioner, from Old English cwellere.Irish : reduced form of Kelleher.Scottish : variant of Keillor.

    Keller

  • Seller
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Seller

    English and Scottish : topographic name, a variant of Sell 1.English and Scottish : occupational name for a saddler, from Anglo-Norman French seller (Old French sellier, Latin sellarius, a derivative of sella ‘seat’, ‘saddle’).English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative cellerer.English and Scottish : occupational name for a tradesman or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle English sell(en) ‘to sell’ (Old English sellan ‘to hand over, deliver’).German : probably a habitational name from a place named Sella near Hoyerswerda.

    Seller

  • Spence
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Spence

    English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or dispense’).

    Spence

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  • Snehit
  • Boy/Male

    Hindu, Indian

    Snehit

    A Friend

  • Vyushti
  • Girl/Female

    Hindu

    Vyushti

    The first light of dawn, Elegance, Beauty, Praise, Wealth, Praise

  • ROHAN
  • Male

    English

    ROHAN

     Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ruadhán, ROHAN means "little red one." Compare with another form of Rohan.

  • Gulliford
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Gulliford

    English : variant of Gulliver, altered by association with place names ending in -ford.

  • KAYLEAH
  • Female

    English

    KAYLEAH

    Variant spelling of English Kayley, KAYLEAH means "slender."

  • Suchin | ஸுசிந
  • Boy/Male

    Tamil

    Suchin | ஸுசிந

    Means a beautiful thought

  • ELROND
  • Male

    English

    ELROND

    Tolkien literary name ELROND means "star dome."

  • JUSTINA
  • Female

    English

    JUSTINA

     Feminine form of Roman Latin Justinus, JUSTINA means "fair, just." Compare with another form of Justina.

  • Jyesh
  • Boy/Male

    Hindu

    Jyesh

    Victor, Eldest daughter or a Nakshatra

  • Ditika
  • Girl/Female

    Hindu, Indian

    Ditika

    Thoughtful

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  • Obedience
  • n.

    A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

  • Whaling
  • p. pr. & vb. n.

    of Whala

  • Xenodochium
  • n.

    In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]

  • Trappist
  • n.

    A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

  • Lay
  • v. t.

    A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.

  • Lamasery
  • n.

    A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.

  • Haling
  • p. pr. & vb. n.

    of Hale

  • Monk
  • n.

    A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

  • Scriptorium
  • n.

    In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

  • Slype
  • n.

    A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

  • Secular
  • a.

    Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.

  • Whaling
  • n.

    The hunting of whales.

  • Paradise
  • n.

    An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

  • Penitentiary
  • n.

    A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

  • Parlor
  • n.

    The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.

  • Oblati
  • n. pl.

    A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

  • Superior
  • n.

    The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

  • Whaling
  • a.

    Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.

  • Monastery
  • n.

    A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

  • Hospice
  • n.

    A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.