An English - Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a vocabulary of approximately twenty thousand words with their Tibetan equivalents

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.