Nursed by a Tibetan priest, sailor in state (7)
I believe the answer is:
alabama
'state' is the definition.
(I know that Alabama is a American state)
'nursed by a tibetan priest sailor' is the wordplay.
'nursed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tibetan priest' becomes 'lama' (I've seen this in another clue).
'sailor' becomes 'ab' (abbreviation for able seaman).
'a'+'lama'='alama'
'alama' placed around 'ab' is 'ALABAMA'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for alabama that I've seen before include "Source of cotton" , "US state in the cotton belt" , "Birmingham area" , "US state in which Birmingham is situated" , "Somewhere in US" .)