"Rays of the Moon" Dictionary - One of the Sources for Sumatiratna’s Tibetan-Mongolian Dictionary
In the result of comparing poetical expressions from Tibetan alphabetical dictionary «Rays of the Moon» writ- ten in mngon brjod tradition it becomes evident that this dictionary is one of the sources for the famous alphabeti- cal Tibetan-Mongolian dictionary «Lamp scattering the darkness» by R. Nomtoev (Sumatiratna) though in the colophon of the latter dictionary «The Rays of the Moon» is not mentioned among the dictionaries used for its compilation.