Unmarked quotations from the Tibetan Bible are taken from the 1948 Tibetan
Old Testament or the 1968 Revised New Testament. Quotations marked
SV are taken from the BFBS "Shanghai" New
Testament (1933) reprinted by the Bible Society of India (1984).
| AMD | unpublished notes from an educated native speaker of Amdo Tibetan (1995). |
| ATM | Alphabetum Tibetanum Missionum Apostolaricum Commodo Editum (Rome 1762) quoted in Tibetan Studies (Kommission Fur Zentralasiatische Studien, Munich 1988 p. 223-9). |
| BAL | Buddhism and Language, Jose I. Cabezon, (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1994). |
| BFT | Bright Future for Tibet's Children, in "China's Tibet" Summer 1993, p. 19-21. |
| BGT | Tibetan Riddles, (Tibet People's Publishing House, 1991). |
| BLI | Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty Four Siddhas, James B. Robinson, trans., (Berkeley, Dharma Publishing, 1979). |
| BTP | Collected Tibetan Proverbs (Tibetan People's Press, 1990). |
| BTT | Buddhism in the Tibetan Tradition: A Guide, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984). |
| CNG | A Tibetan Book of Lists, (Xining: Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, 1992). |
| CTL | The Classical Tibetan Language, Stephen Beyer, (Albany, State University of New York, 1992). |
| DBG | English-Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary, Tashi Tshering, (Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House, 1988). |
| DCC | Commentary on the Diamond Cutter Sutra, in Asian Classics Input Project Release 3, Asian Classics Input Project, (Washington DC: ACIP 1993). |
| DLP | A Human Approach to World Peace, Tenzin Gyatso [14th Dalai Lama], (Dharamsala: Central Tibetan Secretariat, 1989). |
| DLS | World Geography (Xining: Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, 1988). |
| DMP | The Tibetan Dhammapada, (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1985). |
| DPD | A Story of Times Past, (Kathmandu: privately published, 1995). |
| EBN | unpublished notes from an educated speaker of Tibetan (1995). |
| ETD | English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Melvyn Goldstein (Berkeley: University of California, 1984). |
| FLD | A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1994). |
| GSL | The Thirty Seven Practices of All Buddha's Sons, Thogme Zangpo, (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1989). |
| GTE | |
| HSU | The Heart Sutra, in Heart of Wisdom, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, (London: Tharpa Publications, 1986). |
| HTE | Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones, Patrul Rinpoche, Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones, (Boston: Shambhala, 1992). |
| JPG | Joyful Path of Good Fortune, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, (London: Tharpa Publications, 1990). |
| JFS | unpublished filmscript for the film "Jesus". |
| KBT | A Manual of Key Buddhist Terms, Lotsawa Kaba Paltseg, trans. Thupten K. Rikey & Andrew Ruskin, (Dharamsala, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1992). |
| KPU | Tibetan text of: Kha Che Pha Lu's Tibetan Proverbs. |
| KTM | Key Terms in the NT Based on Semantic Domains, [anonymous] (unpublished manuscript). |
| LKT | Lokatitastava, from Master of Wisdom (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1986). |
| MHP | Memorial Hall for the Tenth Bainqen, in "China's Tibet" (Summer 1993, p. 7-11). |
| MLP | |
| MTB | Meaningful to Behold, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, (London: Tharpa Publications, 1994). |
| NTV | unpublished draft of 2nd Samuel. |
| NPP | Notes on the Three Principal Paths, in Asian Classics Input Project Release 3, Asian Classics Input Project, (Washington DC: ACIP 1993). |
| REF | Going for Refuge, in "Class Four Textbook" p. 114-116, (Dharamsala, 1991). |
| RRT | The Rhetoric of Dissent: Tibetan Pamphleteers, Elliot Sperling, in Resistance and Reform in Tibet, Robert Barnett, ed., (London: Hurst 1994). |
| SBC | "Victor Hugo" in Gentle Rain (periodical) No. 2, 1994. |
| SGC | Dictionary of Buddhist Terms, (Xining: Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, 1992). |
| SGN | The Life of the Buddha Dept. of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, (Dharamsala 1990). |
| SLP | |
| SLR | The Standard of Living Can Be Raised in "China's Tibet" (Spring 1991, p. 7 - 16). |
| TBT | Translating Buddhism From Tibetan, Joe B. Wilson (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1992). |
| TCR | Teachers and Students, Doctors and Patients, in Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, Xining, Oct. 15, 1993. |
| TDC | The Great Tibetan Chinese Dictionary [3 vols.] (Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House, 1985). |
| TMB | Traditional Medicine Benefits Modern Society, in "China's Tibet" (Summer 1993, p. 22-25). |
| TQP | Tibetan Quadrisyllabics, Phrases, and Idioms; Acarya Sangye T. Naga and Tsepak Rigzin, (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1994). |
| TRC | Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture, Geshe Lhundup Sopa, Univ. of Wisconsin, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, 1983. |
| TRI | Tibetan English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology Tsepak Rigzin, Revised Edition, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, 1993. |
| TRQ | |
| UCO | Training the Mind in Seven Points, by Geshe Chekhawa, in Universal Compassion, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, (London: Tharpa Publications, 1988). |