ALPHABET USED FOR TRANSCRIPTION. XIII 5. ', the Greek spiritus lenis I used for rendering the Tibetan soft aspirate; in this I followed the advice of Prof. Lepsius, in his recent supplement to his well-known "Standard Alphabet." 2. DETAILED TRANSLITERATION OF THE The thirty simple letters of the Tibetan language are represented in Roman characters in the following The point separating the syllables in Tibetan words and sentences, is rendered by a small horizontal line. The compound letters, seventy-four in number, and formed by having another letter subjoined or surmounted, are transliterated thus: the subjoined letter is written behind the radical, as e. g. is rendered by kr,-the surmounting precedes the radical letter, as e. g. lh. 1 "Ueber Chinesische und Tibetanische Lautverhältnisse, und über die Umschrift jener Sprachen." Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften von Berlin, 1861, p. 479. The letters which according to grammatical rules ought to be silent, are printed with Italics, as e. g. rk is printed rk. In order to facilitate the reading, I have spelt the Tibetan terms as they sound (with the omission of the mute letters); the reprinting in Tibetan letters is also left out in the text, but an alphabetical Glossary of Tibetan terms has been added at the end of the volume, in which the native spelling of every word and the detailed transliteration are given. CONTENTS. The fundamental Mahāyāna principles. The contemplative Mahāyāna (Yogacharya) system Introduction of Buddhist dogmas into Eastern Tibet. Era of King Srongtsan Gampo and King Thisrong de tsan.-The reforms of the |