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Hi! I'm looking for the book A primer for classical literary tibetan, John Rockwell Jr., unsuccessfully (Amazon, Barnes Bokkfinder, Motilial, etc.) Can anyone...
Marian
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Mar 6, 2002
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Hello Marian, By 'coincidence' i received the info you are looking for shortly after you posted. It came in a catalog called Ziji from Boulder,CO. The title is...
dianajo99
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Mar 7, 2002
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Could someone please give a brief introduction to the format for writing Tibetan personal and/or business letters? What are the common salutations and...
mirpaknys
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Mar 14, 2002
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Basically; the inspiration from God told him everything you have here is from God and on loan. So then the mathematics and the formula came to him about doing...
Green Mountain
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Mar 15, 2002
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I have an Epson scanner that included Textbridge OCR software. But, as you might expect, it doesn't include Tibetan as one of its languages--although their...
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Mar 22, 2002
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FYI Hey,guys,another flaw in the tendrel is removed!PC's and Macs can now converse in Tibetan."It's been a long time coming.";) Thanks Tony and Eric and all...
Jamyang Lhamo
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Mar 23, 2002
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Please help me, as an American English speaking person, to correctly pronounce the following two Tibetan words meaning happiness and joy: bde dge. Thank you!...
dphillips28603
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Mar 27, 2002
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... I could be wrong, but in general the prefixes are not pronounced .. so this would be pronounced daygay or in phonetics /deygey/...
Patricia Warwick
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Mar 27, 2002
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... Or using ACIP pronunciation rules (see http://www.asianclassics.org): DE GE dge is virtue, good deed, actually. --Kent...
Kent Sandvik
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Mar 28, 2002
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Here's something for the "spam conscious" among us. Yahoo has just made a sneaky change to everybody's 'Marketing Preferences' to YES the result of which will...
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Mar 30, 2002
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Hey... Thankyou Ed...that WILL save alot of headaches! I just wanted to mention too, that I just recv'd the 'Tibetan! 5' Tibetan Machine Web Typeface from...
Copper
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Mar 30, 2002
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Hi, yes I noticed this too, in case there's interest, we could move this whole mailing list to a 'spam-free' server, let me know if that's Ok or if it would...
Kent Sandvik
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Apr 2, 2002
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Hi, Yes, I agree that spam is more of a distraction than a one time move of the list. Patrick...
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I get my mail daily digest form. This also reduces ads. A thought: Yahoo offers these groups free of monetary charge, so I guess putting up with ads is a...
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Apr 3, 2002
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Actually it isn't hard to opt out of mailings from yahoo or the spammers, err... business 'partners' the use. You can easily edit your profile to not receive...
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Apr 3, 2002
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Like most people, I've had some trouble with credit in the past. For a long time I haven't been able to find a company that would give me a credit card at all....
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Apr 15, 2002
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Does anyone know if the Tibetan word "gro lod" (fat-belly), as in "Dorje Drollod" could possibly be corrupted from: 'dral ba {'dral ba, dral ba, dral ba, drol}...
AION
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Apr 25, 2002
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Hi, the little online Sanskrit dictionary I have shows: sthuulaH - (adj) fat snigdhaaH - fatty medaH - (neu) fat chhinatti - to tear, to break gro is food and...
Kent Sandvik
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Apr 26, 2002
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Has anyone seen a statue - does it have a 'fat-belly'? Might it actually be "grol 'od" which would sound the same? "grol 'od" could mean 'light of deliverance'...
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Apr 26, 2002
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Thanks for the input. Ive been trying to find early sources for Drollod in Tibet before Guru Rinpoche. Does anyone on this list besides myself, translate bonpo...
AION
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Apr 26, 2002
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To look at a beautiful thangka of Dorje Drolod,you could visit: http://www.tibetshop.com/dd498.html and there are two others presently available at that site. ...
Jamyang Lhamo
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Apr 27, 2002
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Im a dabbler in translating texts--still grappling with Tib grammer. But I'm very interested in bon--completed two retreats with Tenzin Wangyal R. Just ...
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Apr 29, 2002
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[The reason I posted it here is that this class has a Tibetan track in case you want to study dharma and Tibetan at the same time]. [Hi, help me to distribute...
Kent Sandvik
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Apr 29, 2002
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Hello, I am looking for the meaning of kotis and niyutas (problably they are related to kalpas and eons) "... thirty six kotis and twenty four niyutas..." Can...
Marian
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May 10, 2002
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could someone help me to find the tibetian translation of john and hallie...
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May 11, 2002
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Hi, assume letter by letter translation, as the meaning could be very hard to get through, you should just spell the words as they are using the Tibetan...
Kent Sandvik
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May 11, 2002
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shatakoTi is 100 kotis, or 1000 millions, don't know if it maps 1:1 to years or not. One of the best resources to figure out time scales, cosmological ones, is...
Kent Sandvik
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May 11, 2002
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A koti is the same as a modern crore. A crore is a lakh of lakhs. A lakh is 10,000 so a crore is 100,000,000. Lakhs and crores are still common usage in Indian...
wrighrp
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May 11, 2002
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Sorry! A crore is only 1000 lakhs, not a lakh of lakhs. So it's only 10,000,000 after all! Cheers...
wrighrp
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May 11, 2002
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It's late here and I've confused myself now (and everybody else too). A crore is ten million. A lakh is one hundred thousand. If I type this with words not...
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