the chorten with pilgrims perambulating around it, reciting their mantras and tellingtheir prayer-beads in pious concentration
chorten in American English
(ˈtʃɔrten)
noun
(in Tibet)
a monument to a distinguished Buddhist, esp. a lama
Word origin
[1890–95; ‹ Tibetan chörten (sp. mchod rten)]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, blip, bootstrap, historicism, pogey