Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way (Textbook) བོད་སྐད་བོད་པ་ནང་བཞིན་བཀྱོན་དང་།

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Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 9380359861
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way (Textbook) བོད་སྐད་བོད་པ་ནང་བཞིན་བཀྱོན་དང་། written by Nyima Dekyi and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ༄༅།། དཔེ་དེབ་འདི་ནི་བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་འབྲིང་རིམ་འཛིན་གྲྭའི་སློབ་དེབ་ཆེད་དུ་རྩོམ་བྲིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན། འདི་ནི་གཙོ་བོ་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་བ་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་སློབ་སྦྱོང་གནང་མཁན་རྣམས་ལ་དམིགས་ཏེ། བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ལུགས་གཞིར་བཞག་ཐོག་ཡིག་སྐད་དང་། ཁ་སྐད། ཞེ་ས། ཕལ་སྐད་བཅས་དུས་གཅིག་ཏུ་མཁྱེན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་ལྡན་ཐབས་གང་ཡོང་ཞུས་ཡོད་པས། དེས་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་བ་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་སློབ་སྦྱོང་གནང་མཁན་ཙམ་མ་ཟད། རང་རིགས་ན་གཞོན་ཁྲོད་རང་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་རིག་གནས་ཐད་དོན་གཉེར་ཅན་རྣམས་ལའང་ཐུགས་ཕན་མི་ཆུང་ཙམ་ཞིག་གསོ་ཐུབ་པའི་རེ་བ་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད། ། This book is designed and structured for the intermediate level of the LTWA's Tibetan as a foreign language course. The author has based it on the Lhasa dialect and it skillfully covers the colloquial, honorific and non-honorific and other intricacies of the Tibetan Language, all of which can be studied simultaneously. This book will also be of great help to young Tibetans who are interested in learning spoken Tibetan.

God Spoke Tibetan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis God Spoke Tibetan by : Allan Maberly

Download or read book God Spoke Tibetan written by Allan Maberly and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Tibetan Elders

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Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Tibetan Elders by : Sandy Johnson

Download or read book The Book of Tibetan Elders written by Sandy Johnson and published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover). This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A historically isolated people, the Tibetans have now indeed come to the land of the red man, and nearly every other country on earth. When the Chinese invaded the country in 1959 and proceeded to destroy the ancient-wisdom culture as well as nearly a sixth of the population, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans fled to India and parts west. In the 1980s, the prophecy was fulfilled, and the Dalai Lama, exiled leader of Tibet, met with Hopi and other American Indian elders in an effort to reunite the brothers." "Tibet's spiritual elders are dying off, and it is with them that so many of the secrets of survival lie. They are the ones who can find by touching someone's wrist what our medicine cannot detect; they saw the empty spaces of the atom before science considered the concept of subatomic particles; they know how to realign even severe emotional imbalances without drugs or therapy; they know what plants heal us (they have catalogued more than two thousand) and how to save them from destruction; they predicted the demise of their own country at the hands of the Chinese; they saw the coming of AIDS almost ten centuries ago. These people are dying off, and with them, the wisdom we need to make it through the next century and beyond." "After the Chinese occupation of their country, many Tibetan elders were killed in reeducation camps. Many survived, however, to escape what has now become a brutally oppressive environment. Sandy Johnson traveled around the world gathering the life stories and teachings of Tibetan doctors, the state oracle, the previous Dalai Lama's tailor, the great women masters - the entire range of the culture. An astrologer offers to produce Sandy's chart, including the date of her death; a stone carver shows her the rocks with prayers painted on them that he places in the river at the end of every day so that the water may carry blessings to everything it touches; Johnson meets a woman of indeterminate age who lives her life in a cave praying that people might be less distracted by material things and learn to care for each other again. At the same time, Johnson herself is on a spiritual quest, and interwoven with the stories of the elders comes her own physical healing as well as a long-awaited reconciliation with her family. The book is filled with predictions made by the Tibetan elders about the course of Johnson's life - most of which have already come true."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448116953
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying by : Sogyal Rinpoche

Download or read book The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying written by Sogyal Rinpoche and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.

Tibet, Tibet

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548066
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibet, Tibet by : Patrick French

Download or read book Tibet, Tibet written by Patrick French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom, and risked arrest to travel through its remote interior. His love and knowledge inform every page of this learned, literate, and impassioned book. Talking with nomads and Buddhist nuns, exiles and collaborators, French portrays a nation demoralized by a half-century of Chinese occupation and forced to depend on the patronage of Western dilettantes. He demolishes many of the myths accruing to Tibet–including those centering around the radiant figure of the Dalai Lama. Combining the best of history, travel writing, and memoir, Tibet, Tibet is a work of extraordinary power and insight.

Medicine of One

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502342478
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (424 download)

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Book Synopsis Medicine of One by : Lomakayu

Download or read book Medicine of One written by Lomakayu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment we emerge into the world as an infant we begin a journey of experience. We all share the desire to be happy. In this journey we will all experience emotional and physical pain and the loss of what we love. How we meet our losses and pains will determine the amount of peace we have in our lives. If we meet them as the hardened warrior or the defeated victim we live from survival and peace escapes us. In Medicine of One, Lomakayu, spiritual teacher, Soul Dreamer, and the originator of primordial movements for emotional healing, offers us a path to spiritual awareness, self-compassion and freedom that is as simple as a Circle. Using his own unique teachings, personal experience, and poetic language, he shares a path that will enliven, bring clarity, inspire, and fulfill you no matter where you are in life. Allow yourself to open the pages of Medicine of One ... breathe in the words ... and slowly grasp all you can from what is written. You will find yourself in a Circle full of deep understanding and self compassion.

Colloquial Tibetan

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317305795
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Colloquial Tibetan by : Jonathan Samuels

Download or read book Colloquial Tibetan written by Jonathan Samuels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colloquial Tibetan provides a step-by-step course in Central Tibetan as it is spoken by native speakers. Combining a thorough treatment of the language as it is used in everyday situations with an accurate written representation of this spoken form, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Tibetan in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills phonetic transliteration of the Tibetan script throughout the course to aid pronunciation and understanding of the writing system structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar section, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues. Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Tibetan will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and for students taking courses in Tibetan. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate-High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

Luminous Emptiness

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824787
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Luminous Emptiness by : Francesca Fremantle

Download or read book Luminous Emptiness written by Francesca Fremantle and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imagery. Fremantle relates the symbolic world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living. According to the Buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixed. The entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every moment. Using vivid and dramatic imagery, the Tibetan Book of the Dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightened. Here, Fremantle, who worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa on the 1975 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the living. Luminous Emptiness features in-depth explanations of: • The Tibetan Buddhist notions of death and rebirth • The meaning of the five energies and the five elements in Tibetan Buddhism • The mental and physical experience of dying, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition

Manual of Standard Tibetan

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Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Manual of Standard Tibetan by : Nicolas Tournadre

Download or read book Manual of Standard Tibetan written by Nicolas Tournadre and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2003 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa as it is currently used in Tibet and among 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, is illustrated with many drawings and photographs and also includes two informative political and linguistic maps of Tibet. Two CDs provide an essential oral complement to the manual. A detailed introduction presents a linguistic overview of spoken and written Tibetan.

The Heart of Tibetan Language Text Book Volume 1

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ISBN 13 : 9780898002331
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heart of Tibetan Language Text Book Volume 1 by : Franziska Oertle

Download or read book The Heart of Tibetan Language Text Book Volume 1 written by Franziska Oertle and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Heart of Tibetan Language! With this innovative course book, there is no need to re-learn English grammar in order to study a foreign language. Instead, you will learn to speak the language by discovering the way Tibetans think, through the heart of the Tibetan language.Can you imagine a language in which letters have their own genders? In Tibetan, speaking to certain people, and even about sacred places and buildings, requires special honorific terminology. Not only that, but an auxiliary form is used to indicate whether the speaker has direct experience of what is being said! Do you wonder how you will learn to use the all-pervasive notions of "Self and Other" (¿¿¿ & ¿¿¿¿ bdag & gzhan/), volitional and non-volitional verbs (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ & ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ byed 'brel las tshig & byed med las tshig/), and so much more? Franziska Oertle's novel approach, introduces you to the indigenous notions, logic and categorizations used by Tibetans themselves,combining them with a student-centered, contemporary learning methodology.Exploring these concepts may seem a bit challenging at first. But rest assured, the presentation is fascinating and engaging. This is a most effective way for learners to gain a deep understanding of the Tibetan mindset. The Heart of Tibetan Language may just change how you view yourself and the world, as you learn the basics of how to communicate in colloquial Tibetan.

A Basic Grammar of Modern Spoken Tibetan

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Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 8185102740
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (851 download)

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Book Synopsis A Basic Grammar of Modern Spoken Tibetan by : Tashi Daknewa

Download or read book A Basic Grammar of Modern Spoken Tibetan written by Tashi Daknewa and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tashi Daknewa was one of LTWA’s resident Tibetan language teachers and with twelve years classroom experience, as well as a one-year sabbatical teaching and studying in the USA, he has developed a keen awareness of students’ needs. Through diligently noting the many and various questions he has been asked over the years, as well as the answers he gave, he has been able to compile this book, which illustrates Tibetan grammar from a quite fresh perspective. What he has tried to do is to address the problems that occur in students’ minds when initially presented with Tibetan grammar in the traditional way.

Tibetan Language, Literature and Grammar

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Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 9380359713
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Language, Literature and Grammar by : Sangye Tandar Naga

Download or read book Tibetan Language, Literature and Grammar written by Sangye Tandar Naga and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been compiled to familarise and acquaint English readers with the Tibetan words and phrases that are found in Tibetan characters or transliterations while reading Tibetan manuscripts. Also this work is intended to help the Tibetans and non-Tibetans who will study Tibetan Grammar. This book is divided into 3 parts, The first part introduces the basic structures of Tibetan language consisting of vowels, consonants, superscribed and subscribed letters and prefixes and suffixes. The second part consists of a collection of articles on Tibetan literature published in the Tibet Journal Series. The third part consists of translations of the three treatises on Tibetan Grammar.

An Introduction to Classical Tibetan

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ISBN 13 : 9789745240391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Classical Tibetan by : Stephen Hodge

Download or read book An Introduction to Classical Tibetan written by Stephen Hodge and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the seventh century, is the language found in a huge corpus of surviving Tibetan, mostly Buddhist, texts; native Tibetans still employ this language, today, when writing on religious, medical or historical subjects. This book aims to provide a rapid introduction to the main elements of Classical Tibetan, so that students may begin to access for themselves the vast amount of available material. While designed for guided study, the book will also be of use to those who tackle the language on their own. Steady study over approximately six months should result in an understanding of most grammatical features and allow the student to read the simpler prose texts.

Spacious Minds

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712209
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Spacious Minds by : Sara E. Lewis

Download or read book Spacious Minds written by Sara E. Lewis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back" from adversity. More broadly, this ethnography calls into question the tendency to use trauma as an organizing principle for all studies of conflict where suffering is understood as an individual problem rooted in psychiatric illness. Beyond simply articulating the ways that Tibetan categories of distress are different from biomedical ones, Spacious Minds shows how Tibetan Buddhism frames new possibilities for understanding resilience. Here, the social and religious landscape encourages those exposed to violence to see past events as impermanent and illusory, where debriefing, working-through, or processing past events only solidifies suffering and may even cause illness. Resilience in Dharamsala is understood as sems pa chen po, a vast and spacious mind that does not fixate on individual problems, but rather uses suffering as an opportunity to generate compassion for others in the endless cycle of samsara. A big mind view helps to see suffering in life as ordinary. And yet, an intriguing paradox occurs. As Lewis deftly demonstrates, Tibetans in exile have learned that human rights campaigns are predicated on the creation and circulation of the trauma narrative; in this way, Tibetan activists utilize foreign trauma discourse, not for psychological healing, but as a political device and act of agency.

Speak Tibetan, Like a Tibetan

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ISBN 13 : 9788177692143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)

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The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume II Text Book

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Publisher : Dharma Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0898003237
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume II Text Book by : Franziska Oertle

Download or read book The Heart of Tibetan Language, Volume II Text Book written by Franziska Oertle and published by Dharma Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Volume 2 of The Heart of Tibetan Language. As with the first volume, in this innovative course book, you do not need to re-learn English grammar to study a foreign language. Instead, you will continue to study the language by further deepening your understanding of the way Tibetans think and express themselves. Relying on your knowledge from Volume 1 about the special features of the Tibetan language, such as the all-pervasive system of self and other, volitional and non-volitional verbs, evidence, and so on, this second Volume introduces you to the fascinating world of intermediate Tibetan grammar and conversation. When studying this textbook, you will explore and learn many indispensable and interesting intermediate-level grammar tools, read and listen to authentic dialogues, learn relevant vocabulary, enjoy curious cultural information, laugh at Tibetan jokes, as well as enjoy hearing award-winning Tibetan songs in every lesson. At the end of each lesson, a set of rubrics supports your evaluation of the process of learning and enhances your meta-cognitive skills. Franziska Oertle’s novel approach introduces you to the indigenous notions, logic, and categorizations used by the Tibetans, combined with a student-centered, contemporary-learning methodology. This highly effective methodology helps learners gain a deep understanding of the Tibetan mindset. As you learn the basics of how to communicate in colloquial Tibetan, The Heart of Tibetan language may even change how you view yourself and the world

བོད་སྐད་སྙིང་པོ། The Heart of Tibetan Language

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Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 9387023680
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book བོད་སྐད་སྙིང་པོ། The Heart of Tibetan Language written by Franziska Oertle and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook will thus not only help you to acquire language skills in colloquial Tibetan, it will simultaneously introduce you to a whole new manner of thinking and viewing yourself and the world. Unlike all other spoken Tibetan language textbooks that I’m aware of, this one (almost) does not make use of grammatical terms and categories commonly used in European languages. Instead, you will become familiar with the notions, logic and categorizations that are used by Tibetans themselves: namely, the all-pervasive notion of “Self and Other” བདག་ & གཞན་, volitional and non-volitional (བྱེད་འབྲེལ་ལས་ཚིག་ & བྱེད་མེད་ལས་ཚིག་), etc. In this way, you too, will eventually come to understand the Tibetan mindset. Being a strong advocate of such an approach is not personal philosophy and preference. It is, more importantly, the fruit of teaching Tibetan language from such a point of view over the past seven years. The response of all of my students to such approach has been extremely positive. You may still ask: “Why bother to learn all these new categories?” As you will soon realize, the Tibetan language is very particular. Letters have genders, an honorific language register is used for certain people and even sacred places and buildings, and the use of an auxiliary indicates whether or not the speaker has direct experience of what is being said. None of this exists in the English language and there are, therefore, no English grammatical categories for such functions. Learning all of these differences may seem like a headache initially – but they are profound and fascinating and I trust you will come to enjoy putting the puzzle pieces together!