New Tibetan Bible (BODNTB)

Overview

The New Tibetan Bible (NTB) is an "essentially literal" translation into modern literary Tibetan, the cross-regional written standard used in digital media, newspapers, and textbooks. [1] Coordinated under Wycliffe Bible Translators and published by New Way Publishing, the text was released in digital form in 2019. The project spans over 25 years, building on a long history of Tibetan Bible translation that began with Moravian missionaries in 1857, with the first complete Tibetan Bible printed in 1948 in Lahore. [2] The NTB was produced by a team of Tibetan translators who analyzed multiple English and Chinese versions and checked against the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. [1] Translators discovered that the Tibetan term dkon-mchog ("rarest being" or "supreme being") predates Buddhism and naturally expresses the concept of God. [1] It stands alongside the 1948 Yoseb Gergen Bible and the 2018 Central Tibetan Bible in the current generation of Tibetan Scripture. Audio versions are available in Central, Amdo, and Kham Tibetan dialects.

Language and People

Tibetan (ISO 639-3: bod) is spoken by approximately 1,186,020 people in China. [Glottolog: tibe1272]

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