An English-Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words With Their Tibetan Equivalents (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An English-Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words With Their Tibetan Equivalents<br><br>Has grown much more voluminous than was first intended and it is nearly a thousand pages and contains as many words as the concise Oxford Dictionary does or very nearly so. In concluding I would add that all through my life my late father''s injunction that I should do something to show my gratitude to the Supreme Government for the free education I had received in my youth in the late Government Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling has impelled me to go on with this work. I thought I could not serve the Government better than by producing a work of this nature which has taken years and years of labour which could not be rushed through even by the most com petent scholars as the result of a life long self - imposed labour. And now that I have after devoting so many years been able to contribute my humble product towards the cause of Education I feel quite happy and satisfied at the thought that it will help my countrymen in study ing English; and English students desiring to learn Tibetan will also.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.