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An Introduction to Classical Tibetan

By Stephen Hodge

Book information

Publisher
Aris et Phillips
Year
1993
ISBN
9780856685484, 0856685488
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9459893 bytes)
Edition
Rev. ed.
Pages
\208
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-11-10 04:27:26
Classical TibetanTibetan

Description

Course on Classical Tibetan, 1st ed. 1990, this revised edition 1993. Entirely in Latin script. The book scanned has many handwritten marginalia or notes by a Chinese speaker, including renderings of words and phrases in Tibetan script (originally only in Latin script in the book) and translations of single terms into Chinese (in cursive Traditional characters). From the Preface: "The aim of this book is to provide a rapid introduction to the main elements of Classical Tibetan so that students may begin to tackle for themselves reading matter from the vast resources of written material available in this language, which remain both untranslated and unstudied. The contents of this course have their origins in a set of notes I made a number of years ago for a small group of Buddhist friends who wanted to understand Buddhism better by reading original texts for themselves. These notes were expanded and refined into a correspondence course to meet the demand from a wider audience. Finally, with encouragement from Dr. Michael Aris, the course was developed at short notice into its present form to provide a modern introduction to Classical Tibetan in English." - Stephen Hodge.

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