Tibetan-English Dictionary

This application contains many alternative Tibetan-English dictionaries. It has a mode for looking out Tibetan phrases (either with Tibetan input or Wylie input) and another mode for looking out English phrases.

Note: an online version of this dictionary application is also out there at: https://dictionary.christian-steinert.de

This dictionary app incorporates several Tibetan-English, Tibetan-Tibetan, and Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionaries. Thanks go to the authors and compilers of those dictionaries and glossaries without whose work this app wouldn't be attainable. The following material is currently contained:

- The glossary from the 84000 translation challenge (www.84000.co)

- Dr. Alexander Berzin's English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary.

- Richard Barron's glossary. © Copyright 2002 by Turquoise Dragon Media Services.

- Thomas Doctor's Tibetan-English terms

- Tibetan and English terms from: Buddhist Terms - Multilingual Version, Edited by Peter Gäng and Sylvia Wetzel, Buddhist Academy Berlin Brandenburg (June 2004)

- Verbinator Tibetan Verb Dictionary (Verbinator 2000). Taken from: Hill, Nathan (2010) A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ISBN 978-3-7696-1004-8. If you want to help the creator and the writer please think about shopping for this guide (regular price: fifty eight EUR plus shipping).

- Tsepak Rigdzin - Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terms

- The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) by Jeffrey Hopkins and others.

- Common Chinese-Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Buddhist Terminology, Compiled by Chung-An Lin, assisted by Hou-Wha Wang (only the English and Tibetan terminology is incluced within the application so far).

- Dan Martin: “Tibetan Vocabulary.”, April 2003.

- Glossary for Mipham Rinpoche's Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1 (Rangjung Yeshse Publications)

- James Valby's Tibetan-English Dictionary. © James Valby.

- Ives Waldo's glossary compilation. © Ives Waldo.

- Glossary of Tibetan Computer Terms by the China Tibetology Research Center

- Various Tibetan definitions from major textbook authors of Sera Monastery (Tibetan)

- Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo (Tibetan)

- Dung dkar tshig mdzod chen mo (Tibetan)

- Dag yig gsar bsgrigs (Tibetan)

- Mahavyutpatti (Sanskrit terms)

- Glossary Based on the Mahāvyutpatti and Yogacarabhumi compiled by Richard Mahoney (Sanskrit terms)

More information about these dictionaries is out there within the app itself.

Tibetan enter happens in Wylie or with a Tibetan keyboard format (you can for instance use the Tibetan keyboard from Iron Rabbit (Lobsang Monlam) which is out there in the Google Play Store when you do not wish to kind in Wylie transliteration). If you like wylie input then you can use the app right away with out installing any further keyboards.

See additionally www.christian-steinert.de for additional sources and pointers to different Tibetan dictionary packages.

Common Problems:

This app needs to extract about one hundred MB of dictionary knowledge onto your system. This signifies that you want to have adequate space on the internal reminiscence of your gadget so that the app will work. If you could have sufficient house but nonetheless encounter any issues when the purposes starts up then please contact me and I will attempt to understand the problem that occurs on your gadget. Normally the app ought to work on all devices with Android 4.0 and better but when it would not be good for you then let me know. Some older Android devices have problems with displaying the Tibetan font in the textual content field in which you're typing. In this case the one thing you can do is to alter the applying settings and tell the application to level out the enter text in Wylie transliteration instead of Tibetan script.