Tibetan Historical Dictionary Overview

"The dictionary is designed to function in five primary formats depending on what view users take, and how extensive any given term or set of terms has been documented to date. At the first, most basic level, it can be used as a glossary - term + translation. At the second level, it is a standard dictionary with definitions, part of speech, etymology and so forth. At the third level, it includes a rich array of multimedia resources - videos, sound recordings, images, etc. - which illustrate the term. At the fourth level, it provides rich contextual examples of usage, whether historical literary passages, or transcripts of contemporary speech. And at the fifth level, it actually indexes other resources within the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library that can be indexed on a term basis so that users can see much richer materials that may exist outside of the dictionary within THL - seeing a place on a GIS map, reading an Encyclopedia article on a subject, and so forth. The Dictionary’s content allows users to use it as a glossary, an ordinary dictionary, or a historical/spoken dictionary with rich contextual examples of word’s usage."

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