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This dictionary is wonderful the best available from English into and language of the Tibeto-Burman family. Goldstein’s expertise in Tibetan lexicography is established throughout the scholarly world.” “The phonetic and grammatical introduction is excellent… the semantic subsenses of each English word are carefully distinguished and the format is dense and concise so that there is no wasted blank space and no fat. … The stylistic and semantic ranges of the entries are as broad as can be including technical vocabulary as well as colloquialisms and account is taken of the dialectical differences that have arisen between Tibetan-in-Tibet and Tibetan as spoken by the overseas communities in India Nepal and throughout the rest of the world.”

“There are a few English-Tibetan dictionaries in existence but they are intended for use by Tibetan want to learn Tibetan. Goldstein’s dictionary is superb in that it provides idiomatic usage in Tibetan proper orthography in Tibetan script and transcription and phonemic equivalencies. Goldstein has already become the leading authority on modern Tibetan lexicography. His dictionary will be an invaluable reference tool in this field. I would expert everyone who is seriously into Tibetan studies to want a copy.”
About the Book

The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans have created a widening circle of English-speakers-in government business academia and elsewhere-who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity. For these people and for others who want to communicate with Tibetans in their own language Professor Goldstein s Dictionary will be an indispensable aid.

The first scholarly English-Tibetan dictionary as well as the only one that is semantically sensitive this work specifies the Tibetan terms that correspond to the submeanings of a single English term. Containing roughly 16 000 main entries most of which have multiple subentries the Dictionary treats a total of 45 000 lexical items. Each entry includes the written Tibetan orthography. Grammatical features are also noted and all examples of usage are presented with both the Tibetan orthography and the romanization of the written Tibetan. An introductory essay familiarizes users with the main features of Tibetan grammar.

About the Author

Melvyn C. Goldstein Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University is the author of the Tibetan- English Dictionary Modern Spoken Tibetan and Modern Literary Tibetan. He has conducted research with the Tibetan- speaking populations of India and Nepal in settings that range from a Tibetan refugee settlement in India to the most remote part of Nepal where he studied an indigenous seminomadic group nestled on the Ti-betan border. Recognized as one of the world s leading experts on Tibet Goldstein has over thirty published essays concerning Tibet.

Isbn No.    9789380359915

Author:    Melvyn C. Goldstein , Ngawangthondup Narkyid

Publisher:    Library of Tibetan Works & Archives

Binding:    Hardback

Language :   Tibetan Text with English Translation

Edition:    1

No. Of Pages :    364

Year Of Publication :   2013