Lamaism, Buddhism as professed in Thibet and Mongolia, or the worship of Buddha and his Dharma (q.v.); conceived of as incarnated in the Sangha (q.v.) or priesthood, and especially in the Grand Lama or Dalai Lama, the chief priest; a kind of hero-worship, or at all events saint-worship; long since sunk into mere idolatry (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lally-Tollendal, Marquis de * Lamarck