TIBETAN LANGUAGE GUIDES.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00706R000100220009-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 9, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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slum : TIBIVAN LANOUILOB OUIDEB.
I have the honor to report, as of possible interest
to the Foreign Service Institute and the Translating
Division, the existence of Pertain lexicographic material
on the Tibetan language.
Sir S. J. Oould (former Political Officer in Sikkim,
now retired and believed to be living in )gland) and
4 H. Richardson (an Englishmont currently in charge of the
R. /ndian Mission in Lhasa, but vho will croon be replaced)
' have prepared a series of textbooks and phonograph records!
to facilitate the study of Tibetan. Gould and Richardson
possibly know as much about Tihet and its laneuage as any
non-Tibetan. There are four books and seven rocords (four
double-sided and three sintjo-oided). The books cost about
$4050 and the records about t7.40,-4 packing and postage are
extru. This set can be purchased frog+ the abet Mirror
Press, Kaltmpong, Wost Bontal, India.
Two other dictionaries, which may be centioned, are
the one( published by the Government of India some years
ago, and the colloquial dictionary and grammar published
by Sir Charles Bell. Both of these are now out of print
but undoubtedly could he located either in India or in London,
Mt. Tharchin4 the proprietor of the Tibet Mirror Press,
states that for seven1Wcanyears he has been preparing a
dictionary of Tibetan words defined in other Tibetan words.
It is now almost finished and contains about 50,000 words
in 2,511 psges else 100 by 7,0. For lack of funds, he has
been wable to arrange for its publication, but he is hopeful
that it can be done during his lifetime. It is not known
whether MP. Tharehin would permit this magnum opus to be
micro-fid, but au overture will be made if the Department
is interested.
Another possible source would be the mennseripts left
Or the American scholar, Dr. Theos C. Bernard, who was pro.
sumably killed in the Inlu Valley in September 1947. Among t
his published works as ?A Simplified Grammar of the Literary.)
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Tibetan Language". It is belicved that his idow, Mrs. Helen Park
Bernard, can be reached at 8831 Etiwanda Avenue, Northridge,
For the Apbassadors
Loyd V. rteere,
Couns el or of the' Enbarlsy,
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