The first edition of this dictionary was well received and went out of print since two years. Although there has been high demand for its reprint, Drungtso publication did not do so to improve and revise it as the first edition was brought out with much hardship due to lack of resources and personal experience. Our aim inj compiling this dictionary was to bridge the gap between scholars, student and researchers of English and Tibetan speaking and to fulfil the expectations of those who requested it. It was also to benefit many of our non-English speaking doctors and astrologers, so that their services will reach beyond Tibetan community. Despite our limited knowledge and experience, we have taken every care in revising and editing this edition. We have featured here the transliteration, phonetics, common English names, Sanskrit or Hindi names and botanical terms of the medicinal plants and other contents and their tastes, potency; uses as well as compounding, their actions and nature. The entry of words is done according to Tibetan alphabetical order; and transliteration are italicized which is followed by phonetic and then meaning. Despite our best efforts to be comprehensive and accurate, it is likely that there are still errors and omissions. We hope that the users will feel free to write to us, with any kinds of suggestions, so that we could improve the future editions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tsering Dolma Drungtso
Tsering Dolma Drungtso is a Tibetan Astrologer, Medical astrologer and Fengshui consultant. She is the co-author of the first Tibetan-English Dictionary of Tibetan Medicine and Astrology. She had been one of the resource people for the 5 and 10 days course on Tibetan Astrology, organized by Men-Tsee Khang as well as the Residential Training Seminar on Tibetan Astrology organized by Australian College of Tibetan Astrology in the year 2001. She had been working in the Astro. Department of TMAI as a consultant Astrologer and submitted and prepared the almanac of the year 2009. She is perhaps the first Tibetan Astrologer who provides basic and advance correspondence course on Tibetan astrology world wide via Internet. In the past few years she met with high lamas and Tibet's leading masters like Tai Situpa, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche and astrology master Tsewang Namgyal, to seek clarifications on some textual difficulties. Her teacher include the late professor Jampa Gyaltsen Drakton, recognized as the most learned scholar and director of astrology for over 30 years at TMAI. Dolma Drungtso is committed to the preservation and advancement of the Tibetan astrological sciences, and application of Buddhism in professional life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tsering Thakchoe Drungtso
Born in 1969 in Dhinghri near the Mt. Everest, Dr. Tsering Thakchoe began his education at the tender age of eight. He studied Tibetan literature from Ngawang Chungney, a former Sera monk and his father. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, thousands of Tibetans had to flee Tibet in the footsteps of their leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Thakchoe, too left his home and parents in occupied Tibet and undertook the dangerous journey across the Himalayan Mountatins on foot to receive education and achieve his goals. He escaped to India in 1983 and studied Science and Mathematics at Lower Tibetan Children Village. A School started under the auspice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. While in school he actively participated in co-curricular activities. He was the Editor of Donmey, the annual school magazine and was a member of the editorial board of Lose Melong, Upper TCV School. He was awarded the best essay contest held in The International year of Tibet by Department of Education. Dr. Thakchoe Joined Tibetan Medical and Astorological College, where he studied the science of Tibetan medicine. He was one of the founding members of Gangri Langtso, the college's annual journal. After completing the vigorus voyage into the ocean of Tibetan Medicine in five Years, Dr. Thakchoe became a full-fletched Tibetan Physician in 1996. Dr. Tsering Thakchoe Drungtso is currenlty a Professor at the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Dr. Thakchoe trained in Acupuncture, pranic Healing, Buddhist Philosophy and Astrology. Dr. Thakchoe is one of the few principal resource persons at seminars and conferences conducted by the institute during the last several years. Since 1998, he has been a consultant of English Edition Gangri Langtso. He also assisted in 'Developing the Art of Tibetan Medicine and Treatment of Srog-rLung without Goden Needle. He was an advisor to Maria Aichhorn for her thesis Tibetan Healing in the Context of Buddhist Philosophy. He, with his wife, compiled the first dictionary of Tibetan Medicine and Astrology. Dr. Drungtso is arguably the first Tibetan doctor to have successfully blended the traditional and modern techniques. Dr. Drungtso has travelled widely in Europe, giving lectures on Tibetan medicine and teaching at spritual centres. He engages in exchanging ideas with foreign doctors, scholars and researchers on Tibetan Medicine.
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