lung-gom-pan.
/lʊŋɡɒmˈpɑː/ A Tibetan monk who has the mystical power of walking many miles at great speed without stopping.
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1931 A. David-Neel With Mystics & Magicians in Tibet vi. 200 I met the first lung-gom-pa in the Chang thang of Northern Tibet.
1931 A. David-Neel With Mystics & Magicians in Tibet vi. 200 The feat expected from the lung-gom-pa is one of wonderful endurance rather than of momentary extreme fleetness... True lung-gom-pas must be very rare.
1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 579/1 He claims to have seen lung-gom-pas on two occasions. These are hermits who are said to have gained the power of travelling a hundred miles a day on their own feet.
1952 E. Mossbacher tr. F. Maraini Secret Tibet iii. 51 Lung-pa,..the ‘wind-men’—monks who, after years of extreme asceticism and strenuous preparation, succeed in freeing themselves almost completely from the weight of the human frame and are therefore able to travel hundreds of miles in a single day.
1954 W. Noyce South Col iii. 39 On the boat we read two books about Buddhism. I read of ‘tumo’..and ‘lung-gompa’, the art of going into a trance and travelling many miles at incredible speeds.
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