Heart Sutra Translation Workbook By: Tibetan Language Institute

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This text workbook allows the student to get to what HH the Dalai Lama calls "the essence of the essence of Buddhism." Re-edited to include English translation, workbook, interlinear translation pages, reading in Tibetan practice pages, line-by-line glossary, and helpful appendices.
Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the seventh century, is the language found in a huge corpus of surviving Tibetan, mostly Buddhist, texts; native Tibetans still employ this language, today, when writing on religious, medical or historical subjects.
This book aims to provide a rapid introduction to the main elements of Classical Tibetan, so that students may begin to access for themselves the vast amount of available material. While designed for guided study, the book will also be of use to those who tackle the language on their own. Steady study over approximately six months should result in an understanding of most grammatical features and allow the student to read the simpler prose texts.

Introduction	ix

PART ONE - Grammar	1
Tibetan Script	4
Sample of Tibetan Book

Lesson I	5
The Thirty Letters of the Alphabet. The Vowel Signs. Superfixed and Subfixed Letters. Prefixed and Suffixed Letters Punctuation. Sample Reading

Lesson II	11
General Information to Linguistic Structure of Tibetan, Word Order. Nominal Particles. Special Functions of Nominal Particles

Lesson III	17
Demonstrative Pronouns. Fianl Particles - Statements, Questions & Commands

Lesson IV	21
Introduction to Case Particles. Genitive Particles - kyi etc. Plural Particles

Lesson V	27
Instrumental Praticles - kyis et. Emphatic Particle - ni

Lesson VI	33
Direct & Indirect Objects of Verbs. The Oblique Particle - la. Vocative

Lesson VII	39
The Verb. The Use of Verbal Stems. Negation

Lesson VIII	47
Locative Particle- na. The Conjunctive Particle - dang. Possessives - can, bcas pa, ldan pa. The Concessive Particle - kyang

Lesson IX	55
The Ablative & Prolative Particles - las & nas. Uses of las. Uses of nas. Comparison. The Semi-final Particles - te etc.

Lesson X	63
Particle of General Subordination - tu etc. Uses of tu. Modal Adverbs and Sanskrit Verbal Prefixes. Use of tu etc. for the Infinitive.

Lesson XI	73
Use of Particles with Verbs and Verbal Nouns. The Coordinating Particle - cing etc.

Lesson XII	81
Personal Pronouns. Interrogative Pronouns. Relative Pronouns. Indefinite Particle and Indefinite Pronouns. Honorific and Respectful Forms.

Lesson XIII	92
Verbal Auxilliaries - yin, yod, 'gyur, byed, mod, bzhin, zin etc.

Lesson XIV	102
Numbers. Diminuitive Particles. Intensive Particles. Word Formation. Notes on Tibetan Verse.

Lesson XV	114
The Structure of Tibetan Verbs. Morphological Prefixes & Suffixes. Verb Tables.

PART TWO - READINGS	129

Key to Exercises & Sample Translations	152
Tibetan-English Glossary	168

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