<p>This article outlines biographical information on Nyarong Gönpo Namgyel and his military conquests. Tsering blames the Tibetan government for the death of Gönpo Namgyel and argues that his death destroyed "the last wall that might have stopped expansionist Chinese designs." (Mark Premo-Hopkins 2004-03-08)</p>
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<p>A Tibetan language book describing Tibetan cultural traditions and attempts toward conservation of the Tibetan environment.</p>
<p>A Tibetan-English dictionary of the following format: Tibetan-transliteration-pronunciation-English. In order of the Tibetan alphabet. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p>It gives English and Latin equivalents for Tibetan terms. (Nathan Hill 2007-12-13)</p>
<p>A Tibetan-English dictionary. (Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p>A Tibetan-Chinese orthographical dictionary. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p>A Chinese-English book about the status of the wildlife of the Chang Tang as well as their interactions with humans and other wildlife. This book was sponsored by the WWF China-Tibet Program.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description</strong>: In order to evaluate the impact of recently introduced wildlife conservation policies, a human-wildlife conflict survey of three hundred herding households was conducted in the south-central Byang thang (Qiangtang) area of the Tibet Autonomous Region (Bod rang skyongs ljongs, Xizang Zizhi Qu). Results showed that Tibetan brown bears were the largest source of human-wildlife conflict in the survey area, affecting 49 percent of surveyed households between 1990 and 2006, with a 4.5 fold increase in conflict with bears occurring since implementation of various wildlife protection policies beginning in 1993. Types of bear conflict included livestock kills, raiding of human food supplies, damage to dwellings and furnishings, and direct attacks on herders. Brown bears have caused devastating economic losses to herders and anecdotal evidence indicates that retaliatory killing of bears by herders now poses the greatest threat to the Tibetan brown bear. Immediate measures must be taken to resolve this conflict if humans and brown bears are to coexist in the Byang thang region.</p>
<p>An English-Tibetan-Chinese dictionary with more than 15,000 entries. This work is based on Hornby's <em>Advanced Learner's Dictionary</em>. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p>This is a very extensive and useful complement to Goldstein's dictionary to go from English to Tibetan, and often provides different renderings. (David Germano 2007-12-13, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-02-06)</p>
The aim of the present study was to identify formulas used at Men-Tsee-Khang (Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute), India, for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders and to compare the Tibetan usage of particular ingredients with pharmacological data from the scientific database. Using ethnographic methods, five doctors were selected and interviewed. A correlation was observed between central nervous system disorders and rLung, one of the three humors in Tibetan medicine, which imbalance is the source of mental disorders, and ten multi-ingredient formulas used to treat the imbalance of this particular humor were identified. These formulas utilize 61 ingredients; among them were 48 plant species. Each formula treats several symptoms related to rLung imbalance, so the plants may have therapeutic uses distinct from those of the formulas in which they are included. Myristica fragrans, nutmeg, is contained in 100% of the formulas, and its seeds exhibit stimulant and depressant actions affecting the central nervous system. Preclinical and clinical data from the scientific literature indicate that all of the formulas include ingredients with neuropsychiatric action and corroborate the therapeutic use of 75.6% of the plants. These findings indicate a level of congruence between the therapeutic uses of particular plant species in Tibetan and Western medicines.
<p>Contains a Tibetan-German vocabulary. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
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