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Tenzin Ringpapontsang

Tenzin Ringpapontsang is the Executive Director of the Phagpa Foundation, which is developing education facilities in Mongolia. He has translated several books from English into Tibetan, and is a foundation member of the Lokaksi Translator Group, which translates Buddhist sutras from Tibetan into English as part of the 840000 project. He completed his PhD at ANU in 2016, and while at ANU helped taught and helped develop its Tibetan Language program.

Introduction to the Tibetan Language »

An eTextbook for spoken and literary Tibetan

Authored by: Ruth Gamble, Tenzin Ringpapontsang, Chung Tsering, Grazia Scotellaro

Publication date: December 2018

This textbook includes twelve multi-media introductory lessons for Tibetan learners. There are sections that explain how to write and read the Tibetan alphabet, how to write and read Tibetan words, and easy colloquial and literary sentences. Each section includes a dialogue that is performed in videos and written down, written explanations of different aspects of the language, videos that demonstrate how to write, read and pronounce Tibetan, and exercises that will help solidify what you have learned. The book also includes links to online sources, including flashcards to aid vocabulary building. Part 1 is an introduction to reading and writing Tibetan. Part 2 builds on these skills and helps Tibetan learners develop conversational skills. Part 3 introduces literary Tibetan by building on the commonalities between it and conversational Tibetan. Here is everything you need to learn the world's highest language. This textbook is used as course material in: Tibetan 1 TIBN1002 and TIBN6002 Tibetan 2 TIBN1003 and TIBN6003

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