Recent political events have triggered a revolution in the Tibetan language. The entrance of Tibet into the world arena of politics, science and technology has led to the creation of thousands of new lexical items in a relatively short period of time. Because of these changes, modern literary Tibetan is extremely difficult for non-Tibetans to read. To alleviate this situation a set of materials was produced to address the grammatical and lexical features of modern literary Tibetan. This dictionary represents the lexical dimension of those materials. It contains between 35,000 and 40,000 entries and includes items taken from all of the modern sources. Newspapers and magazines were two of the main sources used. The dictionary includes a grammatical commentary, a chart of the Tibetan alphabet, an explanation of how to use the dictionary, and a list of abbreviations. (Author/CFM)