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Darjeeling 1915, Darjeeling Branch Press. Red cloth, 60+22+ 88+8+27+35 pages, 6 full-page b. w. photos, 21.56 x 28 cm., a tiny bit of minor old worming, English & Tibetan text, in original cloth binding,good solid copy. RARE FIRST EDITION Das was a scholar and one of then pundits of the Survey of India. In this book, he followed the work of Csoma de Koros, who in 1834 published the first grammar of the Tibetan language in English. * While Das was in Tibet in 1881-82, he obtained a manuscript copy of the Situ Sun Tag from the library at Tashilhunpo, but it was only after he secured a second block-print copy from the Japanese traveller Ekai Kawaguchi that he was able to collate the text and so publish this important grammar. * Among the documents in the book are the Tibetan texts of Das' diary of a journey to Lhasa in 1882, and his account of the pilgrimage of Ekai Kawaguchi to the Great Sanctuaries of Tibet. * Contents covers: the alphabet of Tibetan language, compounds, consonants, surmounted letters, combination of letters, inter-syllable stop, sounds, article, noun, plural, gender, case, particles and declensions. * TABLE OF CONTENTS: Book I: Appendices to the grammar. * Book II: The text of Situ sum tag. Situ's commentary on Sum-chu-pa and Tag-jug-pa. An index of grammatical terms. * Book III: Dag-je salwai melong. Different methods of spelling illustrated. * Book IV: Situi shal lung. A lecture On Situ sum-tag by Lama Dharma Bhadra of Tsang, Nul-Chu. *** With photos portrait of Ekai Kawaguchi, and frontispiece of the Dalai Lama. ****** A copious and very important primary resource on the Tibetan language. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Yakushi: 1984, D38. *.
Verlag: Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 101553869XISBN 13: 9781015538696
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass,, 1972
Anbieter: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding with dust jacket, 2, 2, xxvii, 62, 50, vi, [88], 5, 2, [27], 2, [35] pp., 6 plates with facsimiles of Tibetan letters and a portrait of Kawaguchi in Tibetan dress, tear in the dust jacket (without loss), very good condition. Large format reprint of the 1915 first edition. Diverse Tibetan letters and texts, i.a. the author`s Diary of a Journey to Lhasa in 1882, some of the Poems of the 6th Dalai Lama, An account of the Pilgrimage of Ekai Kawaguchi to the great Sanctuaries of Tibet. Book II has a separate title page: "The Grammar of the Tibetan Language. The Text of Situ Sum Tag by Situ Panchen being A Commentary on Sum-Chu-pa and Tag-jug-pa of Thon-mi SamBhota with An Index of Grammatical Terms by Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi." Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1250.
Verlag: Darjeeling Branch Press
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Good. 1915. Cloth, 4to., approx. 300 pp. in all. Limited to 1000 copies. Some insect damage to covers, extending into the text but not affecting legibility. Wear to extremities of binding.