New Tibetan English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Melvyn C. Goldstein, T.N. Shelling, J.T. Surkhang , Pierre Robillard

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Tibetan

Chicago University Press
03 April 2001

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness. Containing more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic, literary, and scientific discourse, this invaluable sourcebook includes the tens of thousands of new words that have been coined or that have come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951. The dictionary lists lexical items characteristic of the special written genre that was used by Tibetan government officials up to 1959 as well as new terminology used in the Tibetan exile communities in South Asia. It contains both the core lexical terminology used in everyday life and standard modern writing and many proverbs and sayings that appear frequently in contemporary literary materials. The entries provide spoken pronunciation and thousands of illustrative sentences.

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Contributions by: Pierre Robillard
Edited by: T.N. Shelling, J.T. Surkhang
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 64mm
Weight: 2.812kg
ISBN: 9780520204379
ISBN 10: 0520204379
Pages: 1211
Publication Date: 03 April 2001
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments and Preface Pronunciation Using the Dictionary Grammatical Introduction Abbreviations Tibetan-English Dictionary

Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, as well as Director of the University's Center for Research on Tibet. He is author or coauthor of over eighty articles and books on Tibet, including A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951, (1989), Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar (1991), and The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (1997), all published by California.