Тибетское произношение (Геше Майкл Роуч), занятие 7

[Speaker 1]
Alright, welcome to our Tibetan pronunciation class. We're taking real examples from a Tibetan scripture that people commonly would make an error on. So here's our next example.

Well, let's do it in Tibetan. So let's transcribe. Quick, quick.

Space. Good. Whoever said space is good.

Okay. Pronounced? Pronounced?

NGOS DANG. Say NGOS DANG. When there's any letter before a nasal, that nasal goes high.

NGOS DANG. Because NGOS has a different meaning. NGOS means the side of a wall.

NGOS means direct lama, your direct teacher. So NGOS means direct. NGOS means the face of a wall.

Obviously they're related. Identity, face, direction. Okay, so NGOS and NGOS.

So how are we going to pronounce it? Give me the pronunciation. By the way, we're doing, to make it easier for everybody, we're doing transcription in capital letters, and we're going to do pronunciation in normal lowercase letters.

Hit me. N-G-U.

[Speaker 2]
Space.

[Speaker 1]
I love it. Somebody's doing really good spaces. Now, the person who was doing the transcription, the pronunciation, joined them.

They put them together. Why is that wrong? Yeah, it's two separate words.

It's not two parts of one word. It's two separate words. Why is DANG a separate word?

It means and. It's always a separate word. I can't think of an example where it's not a separate word.

NGOS DANG means direct and, and then it would be GYUD PA, which means lineage lamas. So NGOS DANG. So when you see DANG, split it off.

All particles would be their prepositions, definite articles. This is a conjunction. Split them off.

They're not part of the word. They're a separate word. When you're doing pronunciation, you want the English reader to pause slightly between them.

You don't want them to say NGOS DANG. You want them to say NGOS DANG. So you have to have a space.

Okay, next example. This is an important one. One person made a couple of times the same mistake.

Well, it's not really a mistake. It's just something you have to learn. Pronounce.

SANGS RGYAS SANGS RGYAS. What's it mean? Buddha.

Yeah, literally, SANGS means to purify the mind or to awaken the mind. RGYAS means to spread wide. Like Gyatso comes from that.

So SANGS RGYAS. SANGS RGYAS. Let's do the transcription.

S-A-N-G-S Good. Space, R-G-Y-A-S. Okay, now give me the pronunciation.

Think. S-A- Y-A Y-A Now, the person who was working on the text doubled the G. They put SANGS RGYAS.

And in the ACIP pronunciation system, we don't do that. Why? No one's going to pronounce those differently.

You see? No English speaker is going to pronounce these differently. You are not giving them more information.

It's just useless and it will confuse them. Okay? SANGS RGYAS.

You can't pronounce it any other way. This doesn't... You can't pronounce that differently from this, if you're an English speaker.

Okay? SANGS RGYAS. Okay?

Got it? So that's the pronunciation for Buddha. I think we have time to do one more.

Pronounce. CHOS KYONG Transcribe. Space.

Space.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
CHOS KYONG. Why do you say a U sound here? CHOS.

And you say an O sound here. KYONG. Yeah.

This is one of the four suffix letters that changes the O before to U. Okay? So...

CHOS. This is a good example. Then NGA is a suffix letter that doesn't change the O sound to U.

So it's a good example. You have CHOS and you have KYONG. Give me a...

Hang on. Give me the...pronunciation. C-H-U-K-Y Okay? A person who's doing a lot of Tibetan pronunciation in a long prayer, this prayer is a hundred pages long, they're not going to say CHOS KYONG.

Okay? They're going to know enough... they're going to subconsciously know enough Tibetan to say CHOS KYONG.

Okay? So don't... We don't say CHOS hyphen KYONG.

Okay? Although we could have. Alright?

CHOS KYONG. So that's all. The person...I think the person had split these two apart, but they go together because they are...

two parts of one word. Okay? They are two parts of one word.

CHOS means Dharma. KYONG means guardian. Okay?

Guardian of the Dharma. Alright. I think we'll stop there on this particular example, and then we'll catch you on the next video, YouTube video, of pronunciation.

Okay. Thank you.