Rockwell John. A Primer for Classical Literary Tibetan. Part 2. The Reader

Wisdom Publications, 2013. — 160 p. A Classical Tibetan Reader answers a long-standing need for well chosen readings to accompany courses in classical Tibetan language. Professor Bentor has built her Tibetan reader out of time-tested selections from texts that she has worked with while teaching classical Tibetan over the past twenty years. She has assembled here a selection of...

Revised edition. — Aris and Phillips, 1993. — 198 p. Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the ninth century, is the script found in a huge corpus of surviving Tibetan texts, mostly of Buddhist content; native Tibetans still employ this language, to this day when writing on religious, medical or historical subjects. The aim of this book is to provide a rapid introduction to...

Colombo Rs.: Godage International Publishers, 2010. — 521 p. In a broad sense, learning a language is much more than a study of the science of a language: it also involves the study of the culture of the people who speak that language. When viewed from this perspective, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the publication of the second impression of An Introduction to Spoken...

1991 — X + 310 с. This is the second edition of a never ending project to complete a primer for classical Tibetan. The first edition was surreptitiously released in 1985 and subsequently spread around the world via a spontaneous xerox lineage. This time, I have decided to make the present version more formally available, since again I have reached a plateau where I will be...

2003. — 563 p. — ISBN: 9781559391894 The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa, as it is currently used in Tibet as well as amongst 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,...