An English - Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a vocabulary of approximately twenty thousand words with their Tibetan equivalents  (Paperback, Compiled by Lama Dawasamdup Kazi)

About The Book -: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. Cure has been taken to give the Tibetan words as correctly spelt where possible, but where colloquial words had tonbe used in preference to classical words. Names of trees, plants, fruits, animal etc. Which do not exist in Tibet but which are to be found in Sikkim or in Bhutan are given in these languages. Names of scientific products such as machinery, photography, arts and medicines have been explained as clearly as possible. This book will help in studying English and English student desiring to learn Tibetan will also derive some help from this book. About The Author -: Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup ( 1868 – 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.Kazi Dawa Samdup was born in Sikkim on 17 June 1868. In 1874 he joined the Bhutia Boarding School in Darjeeling where he impressed the headmaster Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Das. His Tibetan teacher was Ugyen Gyatso, a lama from the Pemayangtse monastery in West Sikkim.After finishing school, he joined the service of British India as Chief Interpreter to the Commissioner of Raj Shahi Division and was posted to Buxaduar which was then part of Bhutan. He was interested in taking up a monastic life. He also undertook the compilation and translation of the Sikkim Gazette for the Maharaja. The Title 'An English - Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a vocabulary of approximately twenty thousand words with their Tibetan equivalents written/authored/edited by Compiled by Lama Dawasamdup Kazi ', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121211734 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 1007 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-