Dear Friends in Dharma, Hi, this is Erick Sherab Zangpo. I am planning on going to Darjeeling next March to begin intensive study of Tibetan. My goal is to...
Hi there, Can someone tell me if this is a Tibetan word? If so, what does it mean? http://www.greatscot.ca/moschata/blockprint.JPG If it's not Tibetan, any...
Yep, it:s Tibetan, i think it means "A". A is the syllable representing, for one, Enlightened Speech. lotsawa@yahoogroups.com wrote: There is 1 message in this...
... Yes, it's a Sanskrit A. Someone with more knowledge might have a better insight, but the small ' at the bottom of the letter indicates a long A vowel,...
Kent's right. There's a convention for writing sanskrit in plain Roman letters, a bit like Wylie for tibetan. It has 'aa', 'ii', 'uu' for the long forms of...
Hi, here's one for you Madhyamikas, what's a good, simple, clean word to ... 'dzin pa - {zin pa} (process of) (subjectively oriented) fixation/ perception/...
here's TonyD's take on it from the Illuminator Dict: ? I. <verb> v.t. bzung ba/ 'dzin pa/ gzung ba/ zung/. 1) Meaning "to take hold of", "to grasp", "to grip",...
Hi Kent, Funny you mention this, I was actually dealing with the same issue today. The Illuminator translates this word as "to take hold of", "to grasp", "to...
Very interesting and indeed crucial discussion. What about translating 'dzin pa as "to observe"? Let me breifly explain and kindly keep in mind that i got...
Hi all, I'm tryint to kickstart this mailing list with more activities. One reason that recently there have been new many subcribers to the list. As part of...
* If you are serious about learning Tibetan, such as translating text, plan on a learning activity that will span a long time, constantly, but no need to work...
Hi, thanks for all the comments. What about DNGOS ZHEN, that's also translated as 'to reify', 'to fixate to something'. I really don't like that 'funky word',...
Thanks Kent, that was awesome. Over the course of the first term at Diamond Mountain University, Geshe Michael Roach presented his students with a set of...
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One of the most useful things for me (learning Tibetan on my own) has been to use publications which include the Tibetan text and a translation. Initially the...
Well, we all know translation depends on context. With tricky dharma words, I often try to go back to the sanskrit. In the mahavyutpatti, 'dzin pa occurs a few...
... Thanks, like the answer, didn't know that 'graha' is really the root of the translations. The reason for my disliking of the word 'reify' is that I was on...
Kent's point has helped me realize that there's a Madhyamika view to translation itself! It seems that my comment about 'context' doesn't just apply to the ...
Kent's tips are all useful. Geshe Michael Roach's are mostly useful, except for the suggestion that everything should be translated and that diacritics should...
Some are maybe subscribed to this other mailing list, but in case not and they want info about Unicode Tibetan fonts for MacOSX. By the way, I checked with my...
Was based on some email discussions I had recently with others about the interesting possibility to share locations of freely available PDF based Buddhist...
I do not have the particular font for this file on my computer. Can someone let me know where to obtain it? Camilla Van Sickle On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:31:19...
You could embed the fonts inside the PDF file itself using Acrobat distiller or a similar tool, so there's no need to send the fonts over or purchase them....
Dear all members, I am a Nocive monk who just start learning tibetan, but I had difficulties to see the text that you all put in this group's file. Please tell...
... Thanks, great site! It's really nice today that you don't need to be a big publishing house, all you need is a domain registration (or not), and some disk...
In his "Introduction to Classical Tibetan" (p.98) Stephen Hodge translates "legs sbyar gyi skad du" as "in Sanskrit" and "nges tshig" as "etimology". While I ...
Hi, legs sbyar could be translated "Sanskrit", or the "perfect language", why it's perfect is a long story, all Buddhas teach in Sanskrit, in Tantra you learn...
good intuition, kent. although i'm no scholar, the word sanskrit is composed of the following: --the prefix, san, or sam, means together or with, and comes...
