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and interpreted to the people had long been a source of wonder to scholars 

 in Europe. Unfortunately we possess no copy of the Tangyur, as we do 

 of the Kahgyur. Babu Sarat Chandra Das has succeeded in obtaining 

 the loan of one volume from the Labrong Monastery in Sikkini ; but if 

 the whole were accessible to him, the value of his work would be greatly 

 increased. 



But it is not merely the scientific terms of classical literature that 

 will find a place in this dictionary. The work is intended, as far as 

 possible, to be complete ; and will include the language of the present 

 time and of every-day use — in fact, the current vernacular of Tibet. 

 Contributions have also been levied from a large collection of Tibetan 

 and Bhootea correspondence, captured during the late Tibetan cam- 

 paign. These contain a great variety of idiomatic and honorific words 

 and phrases, the use of which is confined to correspondence and to polite 

 conversation. Prom another quarter has been obtained a large stock 

 of Avords peculiar to the terminology of the Pon mysticism, which is 

 thought to have preceded Buddhism in Tibet. These terms are little 

 known to orthodox Buddhists, and were entirely unknown to either 

 Csoma or Jaschke. Readers of our publications will remember how 

 many papers on the Pon religion Babu Sarat Chandra Das has contri- 

 buted to the Journal, from books and materials which he collected 

 during his residence in Tibet. Aid is also promised from abroad ; 

 Professor Foucaux of Paris having kindly offered to place at Babu 

 Sarat Chandra Das' disposal the materials that he has himself collected 

 with a similar object, including a long list of philosophical terms from 

 Buddhist-Sanskrit sources. Finally, in the interpretation of Sanskrit 

 terms, Babu Sarat Chandra will have the valuable assistance of Pandit 

 Hari Mohan Vidyabhushan, the Pandit employed by this Society. 



The arrangement of the dictionary will be alphabetical ; all the 

 words derived from one root being placed together under that root, and 

 each word being again found in its alphabetical place, with a reference 

 to the word under which its meaning is discussed. The difficult question 

 of pronunciation is provided for by a method at once simple and clear. 

 Typographical devices will be used to distinguish modern and colloquial 

 words from those that are scientific or ancient. Some of the work is 

 now ready for the press, but it will necessarily take a long time before 

 so elaborate an undertaking is completed. 



Of works published in 1891 outside the Society, on subjects relating 

 to Oriental Philology, the following may be noticed : — 



Introduction to the History of Language, by H. A. Strong, W. S. 

 Logeman and B. I. Wheeler. — This useful book professes to be little 



