Manual of Standard Tibetan

Author: Nicolas Tournadre
Publisher: Snow Lion
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : bo
Pages : 594

Book Description
The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa as it is currently used in Tibet and among the Tibetan diaspora. It not only places the language in its natural context but also highlights along the way key aspects of Tibetan civilization and Vajrayana Buddhism. The Manual, which consists of forty-one lessons, is illustrated with many drawings and photographs and also includes two informative political and linguistic maps of Tibet. Two CDs provide an essential oral complement to the manual. A detailed introduction presents a linguistic overview of spoken and written Tibetan.

Manual of Standard Tibetan

Author: Nicolas Tournadre
Publisher: Snow Lion
ISBN: 9781559391894
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Manual of Standard Tibetan

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : bo
Pages : 563

Book Description

Tibetan Manual

Author: Vincent C. Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : bo
Pages : 272

Book Description

Manual of Colloquial Tibetan

Author: Sir Charles Alfred Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibetan language
Languages : bo
Pages : 676

Book Description

Tibetan Civilization

Author: Rolf Alfred Stein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.

Tibetan manual. Revised by E. Amundsen

Author: Vincent C. Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Author: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520051572
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are specified, and each entry in the dictionary includes both the Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanization of the Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay outlines the main features of Tibetan grammar. (MSE)

A Manual of Tibetan

Author: Thomas Herbert Lewin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibetan language
Languages : bo
Pages : 198

Book Description

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

Author: Sogyal Rinpoche
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448116953
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.