How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume One: Summary of the General Path
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I am a student at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon. When I start began studying Tibetan every bit office of my degree program, I was surprised to find then few resource available. No podcasts, no online dictionaries, no searchable textbooks?! As I continued the learning, however, I slowly began to find that there is a rich web of people learning Tibetan and quite a few resources–if one digs.
I'g hoping to create a listing of those resources here then other people won't have to dig so much to discover them.
If you know of something that should be on this list, apply the contact form below to let me know. Or e-mail me at andrewcarterhughes at gmail.
You can also read some of my thoughts on what makes Tibetan an exciting and challenging language to acquire.
Quick Links
- Alphabet and Bones Pronunciation
- Vernacular Tibetan Resource
- Classical Tibetan Resources
- Misc Media and Links
- Suggest a Resources – Contact Form
Alphabet and Basic Pronunciation
Links
Tibetan consonants and their sounds at pum-ba-mi-dak-ba.site
Tibetan consonants flash carte du jour manner game at pum-ba-mi-dak-ba.site
Videos
Dr. Chok Tenzin on Tibetan pronunciation (super helpful!): video 1 and video 2
Dr. Chok Tenzin on writing the Tibetan alphabet on youtube
Lama David Curtis on the Tibetan alphabet on youtube
Geshe Michael Roach explains the Tibetan alphabet on youtube
More of Michael Roach explaining the Tibetan alphabet on youtube
Books
See the listing for Fluent Tibetan below. The start volume of the serial has extensive drills that are bully for learning the alphabet and how to pronounce the composed ligatures (consonant clusters or stacks of symbols that constitute a Tibetan sound unit–essentially a core consonant and vowel plus any number of prefixes, suffixes, superscripts, subscripts, and secondary suffixes).
Vernacular Tibetan Resources
Online Teachers
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program is offering online private clases.
Media
iSpeakTibetan YouTube channel: this is a cracking resource with a lot of brusque videos.
Links
pum-ba-mi-dak-ba.site Monlam Dictionary — Searchable lexicon that contains the Monlam colloquial Tibetan dictionary.
Monlam Mobile app – Android and iOS app containing the Monlam Tibetan-English lexicon
Venerable Lobsang Monlam is a Tibetan monk from Sera Monastery in India. He has kindly made his Tibetan-English language dictionary and apps open up source. Check out the GitHub folio.
Memrise Tibetan for English Speakers — I haven't used whatever of these (I'm more than of an Anki-man myself), but there does appear to exist a good collection of resources on Memrise for both classical and colloquial
Schools / Study Programs
Sarah College — higher for Tibetan studies in Republic of india almost Dharamsala that offers Tibetan language and Buddhist studies for foreigners
Esukhia — immersion-based Tibetan language school in Dharamsala
Sarnath International Nyingma Establish – they are running an on-line class is based on Franziska Oertle'due south innovative text, The Center of Tibetan Language.
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program (LRZTP) – is currently running online colloquial Tibetan classes, their Foundations in Tibetan Language Online programme.
Erick Tsiknopoulos runs the Trikāya Translation Committee and offers translation services and online classes via his website.
Books
The Centre of Tibetan Language: A Synthesis of Ethnic Grammar and Contemporary Learning Methodology, Franziska Oertle — Nice volume (used by the LRZTP translator programme) for learning vernacular Tibetan available as an ebook on google books
Sound and a actually well done Anki deck (with sound!) is also available from Franziska Oertle'due south website
Manual of Standard Tibetan: Language and Civilization, Nicolas Tournadre — Archetype textbook for learning Tibetan language and grammer–kinda the standard for classical Tibetan. See it on Shambhala Publications.
Anki deck for Manual of Standard Tibetan available on Anki web
Fluent Tibetan, Volumes one-3, Dr. William Magee, Dr. Elizabeth Napper — A iii-book series developed by the Tibetan studies department at the University of Virginia that emphasizes repetitive drills and natural language acquisition. I constitute the first volume particularly helpful when I was learning the alphabet and how to pronounce syllables.
Audio for drills from Fluent Tibetan bachelor on the Shambhala Publications website.
Tenzin Tharpa from Sera Jey Monastery, Bylakuppe, India, actually has a large choice of gratuitous dharma ebooks available. Bank check out his website.
The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modernistic Tibetan second Edition, Goldstein — A good Tibetan to English dictionary
English language-Tibetan Dictionary of Modernistic Tibetan, Goldstein — English to Tibetan dictionary (not equally complete every bit the Tibetan to English dictionary)
The Tibetan Phrasebook, Fassassi — Phrasebook intended for people wanting to larn conversational Amdo Tibetan. Co-ordinate to the description, "the emphasis is not on the classical didactic grammatical approach, just the practical acquisition of the colloquial language."
Classical Tibetan Resources
Schools
Maitripa Higher — Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, offers classes in classical Tibetan language and Buddhist studies, including a world-grade Tibetan intensive summertime programme
The Dharma Farm — A Zoom-based school founded by Dr. William Magee (graduate of the Hopkins UVA Tibetan Studies program, vice president of UMA Plant) dedicated to education Tibetan linguistic communication and Buddhist philosophy, with an emphasis on a rigorous approach to Tibetan grammar.
Tibetan Linguistic communication Institute — Non-turn a profit founded by Lama David Curtis dedicated to preserving Tibetan language and culture that provides learning materials and classes
Rangjung Yeshe Instititue — Located in Kathmandu, Nepal, founded by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, provides a wide range of Tibetan linguistic communication and Buddhist studies classes, both throughout the twelvemonth and as summer intensive programs
Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Plan (LRZTP) — FPTM-affiliated, two-twelvemonth Tibetan language translator program that takes place in Dharmashala, India, on a rotating footing
Nettle: Tibetan Linguistic communication Learning Online. "Students in the courses presented on this site may brainstorm by learning fundamentals of basic grammar and key vocabulary, and move on to reading and translating texts in Classical Tibetan. Units teach content relevant to producing scholarship in Religious Studies, History, or Linguistics using sources in Classical Tibetan. This program was developed by a team based at the University of Toronto, Canada."
Nettle likewise has an associated Youtube channel with lots of videos chosen The Tibetan Linguistic communication Learning Lab.
Padma Karpo Translation Committee (Tony Duff) has a lot of Tibetan language resource, including dictionaries.
Links
Classical Tibetan Wiki — I'm entering a lot of detailed notes from Wilson and Hackett's books as well as some Collected Topics notes into a searchable wiki format.
UMA Tibet — Found founded by Jeffery Hopkins to support long-term translation of texts and oral teachings from Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Lots of Buddhist texts translated into English with Tibetan and English.
UMA Athenaeum — Audio and video from teachings given past Tibetan Geshe'due south during Jeffery Hopkin'southward time at UVA.
Memrise Tibetan for English Speakers — I haven't used whatever of these (I'm more of an Anki-man myself), but at that place does appear to exist a adept collection of resources on Memrise for both classical and colloquial
pum-ba-mi-dak-ba.site Yangsi Rinpoche reciting The Foundation of All Good Qualities with Tibetan and English and context highlighting that matches the sound so that the listener can follow along easily.
Dictionaries
pum-ba-mi-dak-ba.site UMA Tibet and Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary — Searchable dictionary that contains UMA Tibet and Rangjung Yeshe classical Tibetan language and Sanskrit terms.
Christian Steinert's Tibetan Dictionary — Another Tibetan dictionary that has entries from a long list of different sources.
THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool — A very useful tool (with a slightly dated interface) from the Tibetan and Himalayan Library that will break a Tibetan sentence into words and look them up for you.
THL Wylie and Unicode Converter — converts Wylie and Unicode (don't know what Wylie is yet–oh, man, are you gonna honey-hate-love-hate it)
Reference Books and Textbooks
Translating Buddhism from Tibetan: An Introduction to the Tibetan Literary Language and the Translation of Buddhist Texts from Tibetan, Joe Wilson – The big red book on Tibetan grammar. But volume that systematically attempts to explain Tibetan grammar using the system adult past the Hopkins team from Tibetan and Sanskrit grammar. Not flawless, simply an indispensible resource for classical Tibetan grammar.
My Anki deck on Ankiweb.net for Joe Wilson's Translating Buddhism from Tibetan
Memrise deck with vocabulary from Wilson'southward Translating Buddhism from Tibetan
A Tibetan Verb Lexicon: 2nd Edition, Updated and Expanded Illustrated Edition, Paul Hackett — "Yellow Hacket", the only book that breaks down classical Tibetan verbs
Learning Classical Tibetan: A Reader for Translating Buddhist Texts, Paul Hackett — "Blueish Hackett," provides parallel English-Tibetan translation for a number of texts with very helpful translation hints
How to Read Classical Tibetan, Vol. 1:: Summary of the General Path, Craig Preston — Teaches classical Tibetan language and grammar and vocabulary by walking the reader through a complete translation of a famous Tibetan Buddhist text, Summary of the Full general Path to Buddhahood
How to Read Classical Tibetan, Vol. 2: Buddhist Tenets, Craig Preston — Similar to vol. 1, teaches more than advanced classical Tibetan grammer and vocabulary past walking the reader idea a complete translation of a translation of a text on Buddhist Tenets
Tibetan Debate Primer, Tenzin Tharpa — An English-Tibetan primer on Tibetan fence, free ebook on Google books
Miscellaneous Media and Links
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library has a TON of video and audio in Tibetan from dissimilar regions and dialects. Everything from folk songs and parables to all the sound from Transmission of Standard Tibetan.
Tibetan Audiobooks is a nifty YouTube channel with readings of Tibetan books in Tibetan with text shown forth with it.
Beri Prince (བེ་རི་རྒྱལ་སྲས་) is a monastic from Drepung Monastery that has put upwardly a lot of videos pedagogy Tibetan language and grammar. They are entirely in Tibetan. However, for more avant-garde students interested in learning Tibetan how the Tibetans teach it, they're neat.
In that location'southward a Tibetan language telegram channel. I oasis't checked it out.
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