Essay Towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English, Volume 2Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1834 - 351 pages |
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Essay Towards a Dictionary: Tibetan and English (1834) Alexander Csoma De Koros Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
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Page x - When there shall be more interest taken for Buddhism, (which has much in common with the spirit of true Christianity,) and for diffusing Christian and European knowledge, throughout the most Eastern parts of Asia, the Tibetan Dictionary may be much improved, enlarged, and illustrated by the addition of Sanscrit terms.
Page viii - The result of his investigation has been, that the literature of Tibet is entirely of Indian origin. The immense volumes on different branches of science, &c.
Page viii - Sanscrit literature, which of late has become so favorite a study of the whole learned Europe. To his own nation he feels a pride in announcing, that the study of the Sanscrit will be more satisfactory, than to any other people in Europe. The Hungarians will find a fund of information from its study, respecting their origin, manners, customs, and language...
Page ix - Tibetan books, Csoma tells us, with the exception of a few proper names of men, places, precious stones, flowers, and plants ; but the technical terms in the arts and sciences found in Sanskrit have been rendered by their precise syllabic equivalents in Tibetan, according to a system framed expressly for the purpose, by the pandits who engaged in the translation of the sacred works of the Buddhists into Tibetan, as may be seen in several vocabularies of Sanskrit and Tibetan...
Page vii - ... regarding which Csoma pointedly remarks that he " cannot be accounted of the number of those wealthy European gentlemen who travel at their own expense for pleasure and curiosity ; being rather only a poor student, who was very desirous to see the different countries of Asia, as the scene of so many memorable transactions of former ages ; to observe ' the manners of several peoples, and to learn their languages, . . . and such a man was he, who, during his peregrinations, depended for his subsistence...
Page viii - Though the study of the Tibetan language," proceeds Csoma, " did not form part of my original plan, but was only suggested after I had been by Providence led into Tibet, and had enjoyed an opportunity, through Mr.
Page v - KôrGs . . . during a residence at Kanam, in the Himalaya mountains, on the confines of India and Tibet; 1827-1830. Calcutta, printed at the baptist mission press.
Page viii - Tibetan literature was, he cheerfully engaged in the acquirement of more authentic information upon the same, hoping that it might serve him as a vehicle to his immediate purpose; namely, his researches respecting the origin and language of the Hungarians.
Page viii - To his own nation he feels a pride in announcing, that the study of the Sanscrit will be more satisfactory, than to any other people in Europe. The Hungarians will find a fund of information from its study, respecting their origin, manners, customs, and language; since the structure of Sanscrit (as also of other Indian dialects) is most analogous to the Hungarian, while it greatly differs from that of the languages of occidental Europe.
Page viii - The result of my investigation is that the literature of Tibet is entirely of Indian origin, the immense volumes, on different branches of science, being exact and faithful translations from Sanskrit works. Many of these works have again been translated from Tibetan into Mongol, Mantchu, and Chinese languages, so that by this means the Tibetan became in Chinese Tartary the language of the learned, as the Latin is in Europe.