Description
Welcome to Volume 3 of The Heart of Tibetan Language! As with the first two volumes, this innovative textbook doesn’t require you to have deep knowledge of English grammar to study བོོད་སྐད།. Instead, you will study the language by further deepening your understanding of the way Tibetans think and express themselves.
Relying on our studies of Volumes 1 & 2, this volume is a unique blend of colloquial language and Dharma vocabulary. Studying this textbook will certainly bring you much closer to your dream of understanding Dharma talks in བོོད་སྐད།. In addition to advanced colloquial grammar structures, this book offers you a variety of Dharma related features. In each lesson, you’ll enjoy a dialogue and vocabulary about Buddhist topics, such as ཆོོས་འཁོོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ།, ནང་པའི་ལམ་གྱིི་རྩ་བོ་བྱང་ཆུབོ་ཀྱིི་སེམས།, ནང་པའི་ལྟ་བོ། and ཚད་མེད་བོཞིི།; a popular prayer, a well known quote, a short biography of a past Buddhist master, such as ཙོོང་ཁོ་པ།, གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆོེ། and ཀློོང་ཆོེན་པ།; a Tibetan song dedicated to Tibetan བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་ཚོ།, as well as a spotlight on a contemporary important female Buddhist teacher, including རྗེེ་བོཙུན་མ་བོསྟན་འཛིིན་དཔལ་མོ་ལགས།, H.E. འཆོི་མེད་ཀླུ་ལྡིིང་རིན་པོ་ཆོེ།, དགེ་བོཤེེས་མ་སྐལ་བོཟང་དབོང་མོ་ལགས། and Venerable Robina Courtin. In order to inspire your study of literary Tibetan, verses from the ལེགས་བོཤེད་ལྗོོན་དབོང་། are also included. Each of these features is associated with one of the non-human students who represent the diversity of interests, learning styles and personalities of Tibetan language students.
Franziska Oertle’s novel approach introduces you to indigenous notions, logic, and categorisations used by Tibetans, combining them with a student-centred learning methodology. This highly effective method helps learners gain a deep understanding of the Tibetan mindset. As you learn how to communicate in colloquial Tibetan blended with Dharma terminology, The Heart of Tibetan Language may even change how you view yourself and the world.
