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A Grammar of Khamby David E. Watters; R. M. W. Dixon; Keren Rice
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 45.00This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, provides copious examples throughout the exposition. It will be a valuable resource for typologists and general linguists alike. more...
Tibetan Songs of Realizationby Victoria Sujata
BRILL 2004; US$ 149.00This book is the first commentary in Western literature on the Mgur 'bum, or Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization, of the great Tibetan scholar and siddha, Skal ldan rgya mtsho (1607-1677). Dr. Sujata provides the original Tibetan verses alongside her translations throughout her commentary. A unique CD is included that contains the author's recordings of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's songs as they are sung today in the vicinity of his favorite hermitage. more...
A Grammar of Sunwarby Dorte Borchers
BRILL 2008; US$ 132.00Offers a description of Sunwar, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal. This book features background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. It is intended for those interested in the languages of South Asia. more...
A Grammar of Lepchaby Heleen Plaisier
BRILL 2006; US$ 138.00Lepcha represents a branch unto itself within the Tibeto-Burman languages. This book acts as comprehensive grammar reference of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. It explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history. more...
Sugata Saurabhaby Todd T. Lewis; Subarna Man Tuladhar
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 35.00The Sugata Saurabha is an epic poem that retells the story of the Buddha's life. It was published in 1947 in the Nepalese language, Newari, by Chittadhar Hridaya, one of the greatest literary figures of 20th-century Nepal. The text is remarkable for its comprehensiveness, artistry, and nuance. It covers the Buddha's life from birth to death and conveys his basic teachings with simple clarity. It is also of interest because, where the classical sources are silent, Hridaya inserts details of personal life and cultural context that are Nepalese. The effect is to humanize the founder and add the texture of real life. A third point of interest is the modernist perspective that underlies the author's manner of retelling this great spiritual... more...
Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studiesby Steven J. Venturino
BRILL 2007; US$ 96.00Provides readings in the interdisciplinary field of Tibetan literary studies. This book covers topics ranging from discussions of individual contemporary texts to theoretical interventions in literary and Tibetan studies. It explores the nature of Tibetan literature as both a regional voice within China and a transnational voice in the world. more...
In the Forest of Faded Wisdomby Gendun Chopel; Donald S. Lopez Jr.
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet’s greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, Gendun Chopel was identified at any early age as the incarnation of a famous lama and became a Buddhist monk, excelling in the debating courtyards of the great monasteries of Tibet. At the age of thirty-one, he gave up his monk’s vows and set off for India, where he would wander, often alone and impoverished, for over a decade. Returning to Tibet, he was arrested by the government of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason, emerging from prison three years later a broken man. He died in 1951 as troops of the People’s... more...
Dictionary of Sonom Gara's Erdeni-yin Sangby Gyargi Kara
BRILL 2009; US$ 179.00Indispensable for the study of Tibeto-Mongol translations and language history, this first dictionary of Sonom Garaa (TM)s Middle Mongol version of the Tibetan moral guide Legs bshad of Sa skya Pandita (1182-1251) lists the Mongol words with their English and Tibetan equivalents. more...
A Grammar of Tshanglaby Eric E Andvik
BRILL 2010; US$ 179.00A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make... more...
Himalayan Languages and Linguisticsby Mark Turin; Bettina Zeisler
BRILL 2011; US$ 154.00Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous region. more...









