State of sailor nursed by a Tibetan priest (7)
I believe the answer is:
alabama
'state' is the definition.
(I know that Alabama is an American state)
'sailor nursed by a tibetan priest' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'ab' (abbreviation for able seaman).
'nursed by' indicates putting letters inside.
'tibetan priest' becomes 'lama' (I've seen this in another clue).
'a'+'lama'='alama'
'ab' put within 'alama' is 'ALABAMA'.
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for alabama that I've seen before include "State of southeastern US" , "17th US state, joined 1819" , "Somewhere in US" , "US state on the Gulf of Mexico" , "US state in the cotton belt" .)