The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan surpasses
existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness. Containing
more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic,
literary, and scientific discourse, this invaluable sourcebook includes
the tens of thousands of new words that have been coined or that have
come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of
China in 1951. The dictionary lists lexical items characteristic of the
special written genre that was used by Tibetan government officials up
to 1959 as well as new terminology used in the Tibetan exile communities
in South Asia. It contains both the core lexical terminology used in
everyday life and standard modern writing and many proverbs and sayings
that appear frequently in contemporary literary materials. The entries
provide spoken pronunciation and thousands of illustrative sentences.