A Tibetan-English Dictionary: With Sanskrit Synonyms - Hardcover

Das, Sarat Chandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8186142827 ISBN 13: 9788186142820

Verlag: Low Price Publications, 1995

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Reseña del editor:

This is an improved enlarged dictionary enriched with additional sanskrit terms as compared to Tibetan-English dictionary published in 1834. This is an improved, enlarged Dictionary enriched with additional Sanskrit terms, as compared to Tibetan-English-Dictionary published in 1834. This valuable dictionary has been arranged with Tibetan words in alphabetical order; their accepted Sanskrit equivalents, English renderings of the Tibetan terms; and the meaning of each technical term illustrated by extracts from Sanskrit, Buddhist and Tibetan Works. Included in the Dictionary Tibetan words not included in the earlier Dictionary, such as words used in cu-rent literature, every-day business, refined idiomatic literature, drama, fiction, correspondence etc. A valuable treasure for scholars, philosophers, academicians and all those interested in Tibetan language, to guide and assist in the exploration of the vast literature of Tibet, which besides indigenous works, comprises almost all the Buddhist religious works of India.

Biografía del autor:

Born in Chittagong, eastern Bengal to a Hindu family, Sarat Chandra Das attended Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta. In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling. In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet. They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for his later scholarship. Sarat Chandra spent 1880 in Darjeeling poring over the information he had obtained. In November 1881, Sarat Chandra and Ugyen-gyatso returned to Tibet, where they explored the Yarlung Valley, returning to India in January 1883.[1] For a time, he worked as a spy for the British, going on expeditions into Tibet to gather information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese. After he left Tibet, the reasons for his visit were discovered and many of the Tibetans who had befriended him suffered severe reprisals. For the latter part of his life, Das settled in Darjeeling. He named his house "Lhasa Villa" and played host to many notable guests including Sir Charles Alfred Bell and Ekai Kawaguchi. Johnson stated that, in 1882 Das met with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, the two individuals notable for the founding of the Theosophy Society.

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• Verlag: Low Price Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 8186142827
• ISBN 13: 9788186142820
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352