THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

སོ་སྐྱེའི་གནས་གསུམ་

Transliteration: so skye'i gnas gsum

All ཀ ཁ ག ང ཅ ཆ ཇ ཉ ཏ ཐ ད ན པ ཕ བ མ ཙ ཚ ཛ ཝ ཞ ཟ འ ཡ ར ལ ཤ ས ཧ ཨ །

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FOREWORD
The Illuminator Dictionary was written from the ground up by Tony Duff. Significant editorial assis…

DICTIONARY VERSIONS
The Illuminator Dictionary is available for three operating systems:

• Windows: at the time of writi…

TIPS ON USE OF THE DICTIONARY
In general, our dictionaries are accessed with the TibetD Reader software designed and programmed b…

NATIVE TIBETAN DICTIONARIES
Tibetan culture created three major dictionaries in the twentieth century that were made to corresp…

DICTIONARY ORDER
There are two or three, similar schemes for alphabetizing Tibetan words. This dictionary has its en…

DICTIONARY AND VERBS
1. The Spellings, Tense Forms, and Definitions of Verbs
Tibetan verb theory is complex in its own ri…

TIBETAN VERB THEORY
Tibetan verbs are similar to English ones in many ways but there are some differences. In English, …

TIBETAN SPELLING VARIATIONS
Tibetan language has a unique system for word construction. One of the effects of the system is tha…

TIBETAN TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM

Different methods for representing Tibetan letters using the English alphabet have been employed …

SANSKRIT TERMINOLOGY
General
Sanskrit terms are provided in this dictionary as a matter of importance. Much of Tibet’s dh…

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