Language/Tibetan/Vocabulary/Education
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In this lesson, we are going to learn about education in Tibetan culture. Education is an important aspect of Tibetan society, and the Tibetan language has a rich vocabulary and expressions related to it. We will cover common words and phrases related to school, studying, and learning.
Take some time to dive into these other pages after completing this lesson: Time & Drinks.
Education in Tibet[edit | edit source]
Education has always played an important role in Tibetan culture. Traditionally, monastic education was the most common form of education in Tibet. Monasteries provided education not only in Buddhist philosophy, but also in medicine, astronomy, astrology, literature, and other subjects.
Today, however, modern education has replaced traditional monastic education as the primary form of education in Tibet. Tibetan children attend schools, universities, and vocational education centers throughout Tibet and in Tibetan communities around the world. Despite the challenges, the Tibetan community places a great value on education as a means of preserving Tibetan culture and identity.
School vocabulary[edit | edit source]
Here are some words related to school:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| སློབ་ཆེན་ | lob chen | school |
| དབྱེ་ཚན་ | jye tshen | classroom |
| ང་ཚོས་ | nga tso | desk |
| སྡེ་ཚན་ | de tshen | chair |
| བཤད་པ་མེད་པ་ | she pa med pa | textbook |
| བཤད་མེད་ཀྱི་ཚིག་ཡིག་ | she me kyee tshik yik | syllabus |
| བསླབ་ཚན་ | lab tshen | laboratory |
| བར་དོའི་ཚིག་ཡིག་ | bar do'i tshig yig | blackboard |
Now let's use some of these words in context:
- Student: ང་བཅས་ལ་སློབ་ཆེན་དགོས་པར་འདི་དབྱེ་བ་མ་གཏོང་། (nga ches la lob chen gopar adi jye ba ma gatong?) - "Teacher, can I ask a question in school?"
- Teacher: གློ་བཟང་བཞག་པའི་ང་ཚོས་ཁྱབ་གསལ་བཤད་པ་ལྷག་པར་གྱུར་རྫོང་། (lobzang zhakpa'i nga tso khyap sal shepa lhakpar gyur dzong) - "Lobsang is writing on the blackboard in the classroom."
Studying vocabulary[edit | edit source]
Here are some words related to studying:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| གྱི་དཀར་མཛོད་ | gi kar dzod | library |
| གཞུང་དགོས་ | shying gos | study |
| གཞུང་འབོར་བསམ་ཚིག་བཀོད་པ་ | shying bor sam tshik kokpa | study group |
| དབྱེར་པས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་གི་ལས་བརྩིས་དོན་ལུ་བཞུགས་སོ། | jyerpa zhibjuk gi lebtsi donlu shyukso - "I usually study alone at home." |
Let's put some of these words in a dialogue:
- Student 1: ཨ་ཡ་གཞུང་དགོས་པ་ཡི། (Aya shying gos pa yi?) - "Are you studying now?"
- Student 2: ཨ་ཡ་གཞུང་འབོར་བསམ་ཚིག་སྡེ་དག་འབད་ནི་ལས་་(Aya shying bor sam tshik dek ga bade ni la?) - "Do you want to form a study group with me at the library?"
Learning vocabulary[edit | edit source]
Here are some words related to learning:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| འགྱུར་གྱི་ལས་བརྩི་ཡིག་ཚིག་གིས་སོགས་པ་ | gyur gyi lebtsi yik tshik gis sokpa | course material |
| དབྱེར་པའི་ལས་བརྩི་ཚིག་ཐོག་གཅོད་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་ | jyerpa'i lebtsi tshik tog chyi lak len | learning objectives |
| ལག་ལེན་མེད་ཀྱི་ལས་བརྩིས་ཚིག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ | laklen med kyee lebtsi tshik gi don lu | learning process |
| སློབ་གློག་པ་ | loblokpa | student |
Let's use some of these words in context:
- Teacher: ང་ཚོགས་ཐོག་གཅོད་ནི་འགྱུར་གྱི་ལས་བརྩི་ཡིག་ཚིག་པ་དང་གཞུང་དགོས་པར་བཞགས་སོ། (Nga tshok chokgi tog ni gyur gyi lebtsi yik tshik pa dang shying gos par shyukso.) - "Today we will study the course material and study in groups."
- Student: ང་དགོས་པར་དྲན་པས་དབྱེར་མེད་པ་རྟོགས་པ་ཞེས་པ། (Nga gos par denpa jyer med pa tongs pa zhepa) - "I'm not a good student, I have trouble concentrating."
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
Learning Tibetan requires dedication and commitment, but it can also be fun and rewarding. To improve your Tibetan language skills, you can also use the Polyglot Club website. Find native speakers and ask them any questions! You can also check out the Vocabulary page for more words and phrases.
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Sources[edit | edit source]
Great work on completing this lesson! Take a moment to investigate these connected pages: Count to 10 & Days of the Week.
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Count to 10
- Feelings and Emotions
- Clothes
- Days of the Week
- How to Say Hello and Greetings
- Food
- Colors
- Drinks
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