[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[JKirkpatrick]

Steve wrote:

Yes, Lopez notes that. It's also worth pointing out that it was
referring to the Kalmyks ("Calmoucks") that we find the first
(known) Western use of the word Lamaism.

I would suspect the people most likely to be offended by the word
would be educated, worldly Tibetans, with some knowledge of the
world outside, who spoke English or a European language.
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As a general reply to our conjectures and citations: Isn't it a
significant point about the term that it became denigrated and
eventually unused by scholars? 
I can't think of any scholarly, or at least anthropological,
definition of Tibetan Buddhism that would use the term because
it's not correctly or efficiently descriptive.  

Pedantically yours,
JK