Volume One, A Summary of the General Path
Do you want to read Classical Tibetan? if you know how to read the Tibetan u-chen script and can recognize words,
How to Read Classical Tibetan will show you - at your own pace - all the relationships that make Tibetan easy to read. It is a complete language course built around the exposition of a famous Tibetan text on the
Summary of the General Path to Buddhahood written at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
All the language tools you need are in one place: you won't need a dictionary, because all of the words and particles are defined and explained upon every occurrence; every sentence is completely diagrammed so that you can see how the words and particles are arranged to convey meaning.
Because everything is always explained in every sentence, you will easily learn to recognize the recurrent patterns, making the transition from learning words to reading sentences much easier for you. As you study
How to Read Classical Tibetan, you will learn to:
- recognize the syntactic relationships you encounter,
- understand the meaning signified, and
- translate that meaning correctly into English
How to Read Classical Tibetan, Craig Preston, Snow Lion, Paperback, 221 pp., $39.95
Craig Preston is an internationally known teacher of Classical Tibetan and author of three books. Educated at the University of Virginia under the renowned scholar Jeffery Hopkins, Preston has taught Classical Tibetan for fifteen years. He is adjunct faculty member at the Dalai Lama’s Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca NY, where he frequently teaches a wide range of Buddhist topics. He currently teaches Classical Tibetan and Buddhist philosophy in the Asian Studies Department at the University at Buffalo.
