A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Sanskrit Synonyms
A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Sanskrit Synonyms
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10.1038/072iiia0
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64.8
通讯作者：
S. Das;G. Sandberg;Augustus William d. Heyde
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作者：
S. Das;G. Sandberg;Augustus William d. Heyde
藏语文对西方读者的主要吸引力在于它是中亚的拉丁文，在其庞大的文献中保留了旧世界的知识和早期文化的遗迹，西藏的僧侣们认为这些知识和遗迹是值得了解的，不仅是关于他们自己的国家，而且是关于外部世界，尤其是关于我们所知甚少的古印度。对于西藏来说，公元七世纪从印度接受佛教后，同时，为了将迄今为止还没有文字的蒙古语转化为文字，采用了印度文字，并立即将印度佛教经典和其他作品翻译成新的白话文，这些作品的原件后来在公元12世纪被狂热的伊斯兰教入侵者从印度驱逐佛教时摧毁。欧洲学者已经收集了许多宝贵的信息;但由于博学的僧侣习惯于将大部分人名、地名和事物的专有名称从词源学上一个接一个地翻译成藏语，因此，如果没有丰富的藏梵词典将这些翻译的名称重新转换成可识别的印度对应名称，藏卷中的大量信息，现在积累在我们的国家图书馆中，在某种程度上仍然是密封的。
THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of early culture which the priestly schoolmen of Tibet believed to be all that was worth knowing, not only about their own country, but of the outside world, and more especially ancient India, regarding which so little is known to us. For Tibet, upon receiving its Buddhism from India in the seventh century A.D., adopted at the same time the Indian characters for the purpose of reducing its hitherto unwritten Mongolian language into writing, and forthwith translated into its new vernacular the Indian Buddhist scriptures and other works, the originals of which were afterwards destroyed by the fanatical Mohammedan invaders on the expulsion of Buddhism, from India in the twelfth century A.D. From these scripts, thus preserved in their Tibetan translations, much invaluable information has already been gleaned by European scholars; but owing to a habit of the learned monks to translate most of the proper names, of persons, places, and things, root by root etymologically into the Tibetan, it so happens that without a copious Tibeto-Sanskrit lexicon to re-convert these translated names into their recognisable Indian equivalents, a great deal of the mass of information locked up in the Tibetan volumes, now accumulating in our national libraries, remains to some extent sealed.