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Sacred Classics Translator VIII
Winter term 2007
Geshe Michael Roach
Days: Mondays, Jan 29-Feb 26, 2007
Times: 5:30-7:30pm, USA-Arizona Time (see Fixed World Time Clock (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html))
Webcast instructions
For information on joining the webcast of the Sacred Classics Translator course at Diamond Mountain University, please see our webcast instruction page.
What time is it in Arizona?
The state of Arizona does not recognize Daylight Saving Time, which makes it easy for those of us who live here, but for those of you who live someplace else… well, it can be a puzzle to figure out the time difference.
During Standard Time (now through March 10, 2007), Arizona Time equates with Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7 hours).
Lucky for us, Winter 2007 term is all in Standard Time. So, when it’s 5:30pm in Arizona, it’s 4:30pm in the Pacific Standard Time zone and 7:30pm in the Eastern Standard Time zone.
Click here to figure out class start times in your time zone (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=13&year=2006&hour=17&min=30&sec=0&p1=197).
Root texts & translations
Uma Chidun translation (http://www.dmes.org/TibTrans/UmaChidun.rtf) (as of the end of class on February 5, 2007)
Uma La Jukpa root text (http://www.dmes.org/TibTrans/UmaLaJukpa.rtf) (as of the end of class on February 5, 2007)
Note: On February 3, 2006 Geshe-la used a transliteration program to convert from the ACIP transliteration into the Tibetan Machine Web font. So there is some text in here that's actual tibetan script, if you have the right font installed. You can find the Tibetan Machine Web font here (http://www.thdl.org/tools/tmw.html). There are two versions - one for Windows and one for Mac. The Windows font also works on Linux; I haven't tried the Mac font on Linux. I think that MS Word on either Windows or Mac will work with this file. OpenOffice Writer 2 doesn't work with it - it gets it mostly right, but a few characters are rendered as really big roman characters. So I recommend AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com) instead - as far as I can tell it renders it flawlessly. Wicked psych!
Root Texts (http://www.dmes.org/terms/2004-2005/Fall/TibTrans/RootTexts.zip)
Information on connecting to the online webcast.
Geshe Michael's version of the ACIP database (http://www.dmes.org/terms/2004-2005/Fall/acip-gmr)
GOFER for MS-DOS (http://www.dmes.org/terms/2004-2005/Fall/TibTrans/gofer.zip)
GOFER for Mac OS X (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gofer/)
A snapshot of the ACI/DM Hypertext dictionary (http://www.dmes.org/terms/2004-2005/Fall/dict.rtf)
