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This is the best introduction to Tibetan that I have found on RU-vid. It provides strong pronunciation fundamental and I am grateful to have been introduced to the language by Deshe Michael. Looks like the first 2 or 3 video is missing, and also the last one about the second prefix, which is mentioned but not in this collection. If these exists elsewhere, it would be great to bring it into this playlist (just noticed comment below about video 18. thanks @johndunbar5857)
Hi" Is there like a document that we need to follow the program? Or is it just the PPT shown in the video? Thanks! Word mentions a document at the end of this class :-p
Hi Michael, Are you interested in the Shambhala Kingdom and finding that? I studied the Ngorpa Kalachakra. Do you know the lineage of the Ngor School which goes to the Dalaï's brother Takster Rinpoche who married the sister of the Ngor founding family called Kheun. (མཁོན) I'm related to the Norwegian royal family myself. I studied Tibetan at Paris University INALCO 5 years.
During July of 1993- 4,000 transcendental meditators gathered in Washington d.c. Scientists discovered that there was a 21% reduction in violent crimes during the period in question. This has been called the Maharishi Effect, named in honor of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Handy that this covers fifteen of the thirty. I still mentally use Geshe Michael's alphabet tips from his video made many years ago when I explain it. Very helpful 🙏
not necessarily since the abhidharmists and sautrantika accept interdependence / dependent arising but not emptiness. ie. theravada asserts physical and mental self-established ultimates, assert that subtle impermanence and mental images are positive functioning things, and assert even that all negations are functioning things. all due to not understanding mental labeling. sautrantika are the first to understand coarse mental labeling meaning their vipashyana realizes the unchanging nature of subtle impermanence, mental images, and negations in general, and the exact mechanism by which it is that things that do not function can nevertheless interact with the mind. they still accept physical and mental self-established ultimates, but realize the mentally labeled nature of all mental factors including persons, karma, habit, emotion, time, etc.
As a beginner - and an Indic language speaker - the difference between the spelling/transliteration and the pronunciation just drives me nuts. In Devanāgari, त (ta), थ (tha), ट (ṭa - t underdot), ठ (ṭha), ढ etc are distinct sounds. But Tibetan does not seem to use diacritics in its transliteration and so I find it very hard to make out from many teachers if they mean a ta or a tha or a ṭa or a ṭha, esp in zoom classes!! Similarly for ca, and cha, and pa and pha. Everything seems to be homogenized into a pha or a ba, in my hearing! So many people, including native speakers pronounce the third letter in the first row as "ga" whereas phonetically it is a low-toned 'kha', I think. Why??? I have tried consulting IPA guides but that is another effort...sigh. Geshe Michael is one of the better ones with his pronunciation - mad respect for him for his clarity in the sounds. He is a life-saver! The ra-tas esp with ka etc are killers, almost non-intuitive, unless of course you see the shifts happening to other rows ('ka' to 'ta' etc)... In Sanskrit the change of letters is typically in the same row, esp as nasals etc. But radical jumps from Row1 to Row3, say...phew!
I used to think that learning of tibbatain alphabets is very difficult and complicated but by watching this video I found it very easy and uncomplicated. Thanks for your great efforts. Insha Allah by blessings of Almighty every ethnic group of tibbatain such as Balti, (Baltistan, Northern Pakistan) and laddakhi groups will learn and use their own writing script.
Thanks very much for the playlist. This is very helpful :) Just unfortunately between the 2. and 3. class there is a bit missing. The last column and the 6th and 7th row of ghe alphabet are not recorded :(
So far the best explanation in RU-vid I've found so far! Thank you! Especially appreciate the extra explanations comparing with Sanskrit and Spanish(I'm a Spanish speaker btw 😁) Great work! Gracias
