Author: Kazi, Dawasamdup, Lama: Title: An English - Tibetan Dictionary, Containing a vocabulary of approximately twenty thousand words with their Tibetan equivalents. Second edition.
Description: New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation. 1973 xiv, 989, [1 blank] pp. Original cloth, gilt title on spine. Octavo, 22 x 14,5 x 6 cm (Small white stain on spine, edges slightly foxed, else good.). Reprint of the edition Calcutta, 1919. Lama Dawasamdup Kazi (Tib: Zla-ba-bsam, Kazi) was Headmaster of the Sikkim State Boarding School at Gangtok. In the 4-page Preface he tells the interesting story of how he came to write it and his contact with such luminaries of the then Anglo-Indian-Tibetan establishment as D. Macdonald, H.B. Hannah, E. Denison Ross, J.C. White, Sir Thutob Namgyal, Sir Ashutosh Mukerjee and Sir Harcourt Butler. "Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup (17 June 1868 - 22 March 1922) is now best known as one of the first translators of important works of Tibetan Buddhism into the English language and a pioneer central to the transmission of Buddhism in the West. From 1910 he also played a significant role in relations between British India and Tibet." (Wikipedia). Zweite Ausgabe. Original-Leinwandband (leicht bestossen, Schnitt leicht fleckig eine übermalte Stelle auf dem Rücken, Buchhändlerstempel auf fliegendem Vorsatz, im Ganzen ordentlich erhalten). - RFM - Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage. Free shipping to Germany, shipping costs abroad 6,00 EUR.
Keywords: [Wörterbuch Lexikon Wörterbücher Tibet Tibetisch Buddhismus Vajrayana Sprachwissenschaft Linguistik; Geographie; Literaturwissenschaft; Lexika Nachschlagewerke]
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