Excerpt from An English-Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words With Their Tibetan Equivalents 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 ...
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Excerpt from An English-Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words With Their Tibetan Equivalents 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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