Yig bskur rnam gzhag = Yig bskur rnam gshag : A general letter-writer in simple idiomatic Tibetan

Name: Das, Sarat Chandra, 1849-1917 (Compiler); Dgaʼ-ldan-dpal-ʼbyor, Bshad-sgra (Author); Shes-rab-rgya-mtsho, Bla-ma (Author)
Title: Yig bskur rnam gzhag = Yig bskur rnam gshag : A general letter-writer in simple idiomatic Tibetan
Other Titles: General letter-writer in simple idiomatic Tibetan; Yig bskur rnam gshag
Abstract: Collection of original letters by Bkaʼ-blon Bshad-sgra (pages 2-52), addessed to various lamas, ministers, chieftains, etc., and obtained by Das while in Tibet in 1881-1882; also includes letters partly composed and partly compiled by Bla-ma Shes-rab-rgya-mtsho, head lama of Ghoom Monastery, near Darjeeling, (pages 54-72); and a popular letter-writing manual for business and ordinary correspondence , which was obtained by Mr. A.W. Paul, Political officer with the Sikkim Expedition of 1888.
Collection Name: The Tharchin Collection
Subjects: Letter writing, Tibetan; Tibetan language; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History
Format: books
Genre: Texts
Publication Information: [publisher not identified]: Darjeeling?
Date: [1901?]

Physical Description: xii, 88 pages ; 24 cm
Note (Funding): Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Note (Language): In Tibetan; preface in English; table of contents in Tibetan and English.
Note: Part III, containing standard letter-forms for business and ordinary correspondence used by the tung-yigs (correspondence clerks of Tibet).; A later edition of this work was published in 1938 in Chengdu, China.; Library's copy lacks pages 83-[88?].
Language: Tibetan
Contents: Part I. Bkaʼ-blon Bshad-sgras brtsoms pa bzhugs so -- Part II. Bla-ma Shes-rab-rgya-mtshos brtsams pa -- Part III. Yig bskur rnam gzhag
Library Location: C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 13014079
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-1n5a-p338
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