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Synopsis In the first edition this dictionary was published as the second part of a "Manual of Colloquial Tibetan," the first part consisting of a grammar of Colloquial Tibetan. In this second edition both parts have not only been revised, but have also been considerably enlarged. The map accompanying this edition--the latest from the Indian Survey Department--is bulkier than the Royal Geographical Society's map of 1904, with which the first edition was furnished. It has therefore been found best to bring out the grammar and dictionary as separate books. The map accompanies the grammar. The Tibetan words are romanized, as in the first edition, for the convenience of those, who lack either the time or the inclination to master the Tibetan character. But the first chapter of the grammar, that on "The alphabet and its pronounciation," is reprinted at the commencement of this dictionary, in order that the student, who learns the Tibetan letters, may understand the structure and the pronounciation of the words more clearly than can be expressed by any system of romanization.