Much contemporary poetry billed as experimental prioritizes literary devices over raw emotions. In A Tibetan Grammar, translated from the French by Keith Waldrop, poet Bénédicte Vilgrain undermines ...

A new simplified presentation of a jawbreaking language was available last week at the Oxford University Press, Bombay branch. Tibetan Word Book is also one of the weightiest contributions to the ...

The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese. However, ...

Pu Tsering, a good-natured primary school teacher, is very stubborn when it comes to which language his students have to speak. "We should speak standard Tibetan," the 37-year-old language teacher ...

Namkha Rinpoche, an associate of the XIVth Dalai Lama, will give a free public teaching from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road in Santa Barbara. The public is welcome, ...

At 38, Dawa Tsering often recalls with fondness how hard he used to practise Tibetan writing as a child. "I often wrote on a birch board with a bamboo stick dipped with soya sauce on its sharpened end ...