Tibetan Dictionary and Language Books

This book aims to help Hindi and Tibetan speakers acquire conversational proficiency in each others language. To this end, the written and phonetic forms of words are provided for both languages. The addition of an English translation provides the opportunity for others to gain access to these languages. The topics covered are relevant to everybody life, grouped into lesson containing useful phrases and sentences.

The first scholarly dictionary of its kind by the worlds leading lexicographer of modern Tibetan. It is a must for everyone who needs to write or speak modern Tibetan. It has 16,000 main entries and 29,000 sub-entries ranging from the technical and scholarly to the idiomatic and colloquial.

This is the first such dictionary in English and is based on the The Great Volume of Precise Understanding(Mahavyutpatti)-the first Sanskrit dictionary commissioned by King Tri Ralpachen in the 9th century, supplemented from the works of various Tibetan lamas. The work contains 4,000 main entries and over 6,000 sub-entries providing Sanskrit equivalents where possible.

With easy-to-understand diagrams, Preston shows how to find your way through Tibetan sentences. It is like having a personal tutor at your fingertips, allowing you to proceed at your own pace through a wealth of material. As you work your way through an actual Tibetan text, Preston offers guidance at every turn. He explains the meaning of new words as they arise. He also offers a complete glossary of all the words at the end of the book. As you…

Panini`s grammar of sanskrit written in the sixth century B.C., is the earlist linguistic description of the language and is the source and inspiration for the development of comparative philosophy and modern linguistics. The Astadhyayi remains the most correct and complete grammer ever written and is considered a model for all grammars. Simotra M. Katre`s expert translation fo the Astadhyayi is the first English translation of the work to use Roman transliteration for the sanskrit text. Not only scholars of…

Indo-Aryan is the term applied to that branch of the Indo-European languages which was brought into India by the Aryans and of which the oldest recorded form is to be found in the hymns of the Rgveda. From this there developed on the one hand a literary medium, called sanskrit which has been the vehicle down almost to the present day of a vast literature and on the other hand a great range of spoken forms which used by hundreds…

Pub. Year: 2008 Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi

Publish. Year: 2008 Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi

The Sanskrit-Tibetan Dictionary is the first lexicographical work to provide the Tibetan equivalents or correspondences of Buddhist Sanskrit words, technical terms, and phrases. It is the reverse of the 19 volumes of the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary. It has 70,000 vocabulary entries in densely printed 800 three-column pages. It includes words and compounds from sutras (like the Kasyapa-parivasta, Samadhiraja, Suvarna-prabhasa, Lankavatara), from Avatamsaka texts (like the Dasa-bhumika, Bhadracari, Bhadrakalpika), from the Prajnaparamita treatise (like Abhisamay-alankara, Ratna-guna-sancaya-gatha), from Vinaya discipline (Pravrajiya, Kathina-vastu), from…

Publish year 2005 Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies/25#b, Sarnath

The most systematic and extensive course system available in spoken Tibetan language, Fluent Tibetan was developed by language experts working in conjunction with indigenous speakers at the University of Virginia. Based upon courses for diplomats needing to learn a language quickly, the method acquaints students with the sounds and patterns of Tibetan speech, through repetitive interactive drills, enabling the quick mastery of increasingly complex structures, and thereby promoting rapid progress in speaking the language. Fluent Tibetan is the best course…

Compiled from a large number of Tibetan and Sanskrit works, this dictionary contains Tibetan words with Sanskrit equivalents and English meaning. Technical terms are illustrated with extracts from Sanskrit and Tibetan works.

Unlike previously available materials, Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan will allow beginners to understand the logic of Tibetan grammar and syntax through graded readings and narrative explanations. The large glossary, which includes particles and is indexed by page, will serve as an invaluable reference for readers of Tibetan at all levels. The reading course includes the Tibetan alphabet and its pronunciation, as well as a wide range of modern literary styles from literature, history, current affairs, newspapers, and even communist…