LEARNING TO READ THE TIBETAN SCRIPT

PRESERVING TIBETAN50 MANDALAJune/July 2006 In the last column I discussed the coming of the Dharmato Tibet with special emphasis on the role the TIBETAN languageplayed in that process. In this column I would like to begin toteach howto actually read the TIBETAN SCRIPT . If an Englishspeaker who speaks or reads no other language wishes to learnFrench, Italian, or German, he or she will know how to readthe SCRIPT and use the dictionary since all of these languageshave alphabets based on the one used by the Romans, and theyall have the same dictionary word order. But when learningTibetan, we first need to learn to read a very foreign-lookingscript. At first glance, this might seem quite difficult. It is not,however, as impossible as it might seem because there is a verylogical system of organization to the TIBETAN that is unlike any-thing found in English or the other European languages. TIBETAN is written in a variety of different scripts.

PRESERVING TIBETAN 50 MANDALA June/July 2006 In the last column I discussed the coming of the Dharma to Tibet with special emphasis on the role the Tibetan language played in that process.

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