Dear Stephen and friends,

thanks for the correction. 'lama' is Tibetan, and 'dalai' as in "Dalai
Lama" is Mongolian.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Hodge wrote:

> A lama is a learned teacher [snip] and it is actually a mongolian
word.

No, it's the standard Tibetan used to translate "guru". It's
the "dalai" as in "Dalai Lama" which is Mongolian -- meaning "ocean".