Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: A Tibetan-English dictionary of about 2,350 items. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)

This dictionary is ostensibly a new edition of the author’s 1978 dictionary GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn C. (Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan), though many times its size. His analysis of grammar, and specifically of verb categories, has not changed since the 1978 version despite significant strides in modern research. This book is more a glossary than a dictionary, it contains more words than probably any dictionary, but gives no citations and contains many misprints and faulty cross references. Essentially the editor has put many (over 21) other dictionaries together. My impression is that it relies most heavily on ZHANG (Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo / Zang Han Da Cidian [Great Tibetan Chinese Dictionary]). Although this work is useful for reading texts, especially modern, it fails to contribute to scientific lexicography. An addendum and corrigienda is available at the website: http://www.cwru.edu/affil/tibet/addendum.html (Nathan Hill, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)