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Tibetan Grammar
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Tibetan Grammar

Complete Traditional Grammar Course
Created byAdelaide Foster
Last updated 1/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Core principles of Tibetan Grammar explained in English.
  • The particles in the different grammar cases
  • Exercises with real examples of the different grammar points
  • Improve your understanding of the language through exercises and videos.

Course content

19 sections • 31 lectures • 2h 7m total length

  • Introduction1:15

    Yangchen Drubpe Dorje དབྱངས་ཅན་གྲུབ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ (1809-1887) is the author of the text we will follow: The Wish-Fulfilling Tree: The Essence of Thönmi’s Masterpiece "The Thirty Verses". Often abbreviated to ལེགས་བཤད་ལྗོན་དབང་

  • Letters etc3:44

    Explore the Tibetan alphabet by viewing letters as sounds, not shapes, and learn how 30 consonants and four vowels called young form words and names.

Requirements

  • The student should be able to read Tibetan already but nothing else is really necessary.

Description

Explanations in English of the commentary of the 30 verses on Tibetan grammar by Thönmi Sambhoṭa - ཐོན་མི་སམྦྷོ་ཊ་.  Thönmi Sambhota is regarded in history as the inventor of Tibetan script in the 7th century. The root text this course follows is the སུམ་ཅུ་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ལེགས་བཤད་ལྗོན་པའི་དབང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། - an extremely well-known text studied by Tibetans in schools and monasteries. Most Tibetans will have even memorised the text prior to studying its meaning.

Each topic presented include at least one lecture. Most have two lectures and a quiz. All the most important grammar points are included here based on a text written more than a thousand years ago, when the written language was codified by Thönmi.

You can learn the different grammar topics independently or linearly, according to your needs. Coming back to reread some of the topics introduced here might be needed during your studied of the language, and thus buying this course offers you a lifelong access.

All the topics are explained in English, with examples, definitions and exercises in Tibetan. The course has over 30 separate lectures and aims to be as comprehensive and useful as possible - feel free to contact me if you have questions.

All the best in your studies of this amazing language,

Adelaide

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to discover Tibetan grammar through Tibetan lenses.
  • Intermediate Tibetan learners who want to deepen their understanding.
  • Experts who want to understand the subtleties of the language.

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