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Early Western Scholarship
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Texts
Buddhism in Tibet — Emil SchlaginteweitEmil Schlaginteweit's 1863 study of Tibetan Buddhism and its Indian antecedents, covering doctrine, literature, priesthood, ritual, iconography, and calendrical systems.Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös — Theodore DukaTheodore Duka’s 1885 biography of Alexander Csoma de Körös (1784–1842), the Transylvanian scholar who studied Tibetan in the monasteries of Zanskar and Kanum and whose Tibetan grammar and dictionary were printed at Calcutta in 1834, built largely on his letters and on Government and Asiatic Society of Bengal records, with a notice of each of his published essays and surviving manuscripts.Tibetan Grammar — H. A. JäschkeH. A. Jäschke’s grammar of the Tibetan language in the second edition prepared by H. Wenzel (London, 1883): the alphabet and pronunciation, the parts of speech and the syntax of the written language, with constant notice of the spoken dialects of Western and Central Tibet, and an appendix of colloquial phrases, a reading exercise from the Dzaṅlun and a list of verbs.