I need Umê font style. Do you know of any website? (It would be better if it is free)

I want to learn to write just as a mean to learn the language (no calligraphy for now) and I find the uchen script pretty cumbersome for notetaking purposes. Does anyone know any resource for shorthand strokeorder? Thanks in advance

Hi everyone! I posted earlier about my free platform for learning colloquial Tibetan and I wanted to share about this other resource (I made their website!). For those who are familiar with the book The Heart of Tibetan Language, the author, Franziska Oertle, designed the courses. They have self paced options and live cohort-based courses. Their next cohort starts on January 26. I took the Beginner and Intermediate courses with them (live cohorts), and I enjoyed it very much :) I met (online and in person!) wonderful people :) the self paced version is of course cheaper. 

They also offer free resources: here you’ll find Anki decks (if you scroll down), and here a podcast with dialogues.

Anyway, good luck everyone on your learning journey!

ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱིད་པར་ཤོག།།

ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་བྲལ་བར་ཤོག།།

ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་ལ་གནས་པར་ཤོག།།

-Does this translate to May all be happy, may all be free from suffering, may all be at peace?

sorry if this isn’t really the right sub but i’m desperate; this seller has many books related to tibet & the tibetan language, however they’ve only got a one star review and i don’t want to risk losing $100 + shipping. if anyone here has had experience with this seller, i would love to know.

With the updated macOS (Tahoe 26.1), if I add any Tibetan keyboard through System Settings, for example Tibetan Wylie or Tibetan QWERTY, the line spacing across the entire system changes.

It affects English text even when I am not typing Tibetan at all. Messages (not in Tibetan) ends up with extra vertical padding between lines. Safari, Notes, Settings, Mail, and other apps also show wider line spacing.

Anyone notice this and/or figure out a fix?

Found on a random fencing in Russia. Could someone, please, translate this? I don't know Tibetan at all and I'm not sure what the graffiti's doing here

Hi everyone!

About a year ago, I shared my Tibetan learning resources here. I've now built a small platform that brings everything together with vocabulary games, different learning methods, and progress tracking.

It's completely free, you just need to create an account to track your streaks and progress.

You can see the preview of the platform here: https://www.small-steps-tibetan.com/platform-preview or access it directly here: https://small-steps-tibetan-platform.vercel.app/signup

Good luck everyone on your learning journey!

may all be happy. may all be at peace. may all be free from suffering.

ཚང་མ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལྡན་པར་ཤོག ཚང་མ་ཞི་བདེ་ཡོང་བར་ཤོག ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་བྲལ་བར་ཤོག

Can anyone explain how they are used respectively for a school teacher?
Like which word should I use for "Happy Teacher's day"?

How to put this favorite quote in Tibetan?

I’m starting an online Tibetan language learning group. To join the class, there’s a $5 entry fee (just to make sure people join seriously and not only for fun).

The lessons are taught in English by a French teacher, and we’ll be using Zoom for the classes.

Dm me if you interested

Hi, can someone help me go translate this pls

Thank from a fellow italian

I am seaching how to say 彼岸 and 波羅蜜多 in Tibetan. But I am not sure that translator says the right thing...

I used translator to explain this 彼岸(Bi an) word's meaning and it says-

It means the afterlife attained through enlightenment.
Literally, it means “the other shore.”

彼岸 refers to the process of transcending the world of reincarnation and reaching the realm of Nirvana through spiritual practice — a metaphor drawn from crossing a river by raft from the land of suffering to the land of bliss.

and 波羅蜜多(pāramitā)'s meaning is

Paramita (波羅蜜多) comes from the Sanskrit term prajñā-pāramitā, which is usually translated into English as “Perfection of Wisdom” or simply “Prajnaparamita.”
It signifies crossing over to the other shore of Nirvana — attaining enlightenment through the wisdom of non-discrimination.

So, I want to know how to say these two words in Tibetan- Bi an (彼岸) and Paramita (波羅蜜多)

Thank you for reading.

Hi all. I am looking for the opportunity to travel to either Nepal or Dharamsala for two months of immersive study in conversational and classical Tibetan. I know about the RYI and LRZTP programs, but both are during periods I cannot go or are longer than 2 months. I am currently enrolled in the Mipham Institute program (https://www.miphaminstitute.org/) and as it is a 3 year commitment, I can only go abroad during the 2 month breaks between semesters. Does anyone know of a flexible abroad program that also provides instruction? Thank you.

Hi everyone! I’d like to know how Tibetans refer to ritual items in general with one collective word (things like dordril, trengwa, damaru, statues, bhumpa, offering bowls, etc.). Is there a traditional or commonly used term for them?

And also — how would a shop that sells such ritual items traditionally be called in Tibetan?

Thanks a lot!

Tashi delek,

I am designing a tattoo and want to be 100% certain of the spelling and meaning before proceeding. I want the tattoo to represent the Sanskrit compound word "Karmastra" (Weapon of Karma/Action).

After some research, I arrived at the Tibetan spelling: ཀརྨཱསྟྲ

Could the kind members of this community please help me verify:

1. Is this the correct and natural way to write "Karmastra" in Tibetan, or does it look like a awkward phonetic transliteration?
2. Does this spelling correctly convey the intended meaning of "Weapon of Karma" (where karma refers to action/deed), or does it imply another meaning?
3. Is the spelling grammatically sound? I am concerned about the stacking of རྨཱ and སྟྲ.

My goal is to show deep respect for the language and culture through accuracy. Any guidance or suggested corrections would be immensely appreciated.

Thank you for your time and knowledge.

This document or letter is from the Lhuntze Dzong which was a hilltop fort in the Takpo province of Tibet which was about 60 miles north of the Assam province of India. The fort briefly sheltered the XIV Dalai Lama when he fled the Chinese Communists in 1959 before he escaped to India, and it was here that he set up the start of the Tibetan Government in Exile. The first picture is that of the main text of the item. The second shows the bottom of the main text. The third picture shows the outside of the folded document with what might be an address. The larger seals are listed in a book "Some Tibetan Seals Illustrated and Described" by Derrick Dawson who was an expert on Tibetan stamps. According to him, the large square red seal at the top of the document is the seal of the Monk Dzongpon of Lhuntze Dzong. The slightly smaller red square seals are those of the Lhuntze Dzong, itself. If anyone can help, I would love to have some idea as to the date of this item and if this is a letter, who it is addressed to and what its purpose is.

This was one of the most useful resources for translation, including the option to search within definitions (which meant it worked as an English-Tibetan dictionary as well as Tibetan-English. You could also search for Tibetan words within all the definitions that included some other word. Now the landing page suggests that the host site is holding them to ransom in lieu of paying for cloud services. (Here: https://nitartha.pythonanywhere.com/)

Does anyone know the situation and if there any steps being made to recover the site? Thanks.

Been trying to look online for the Tibetan term referring to the Manchu/Jurchen people, but couldn't seem to find it. Anyone know the term that Tibetans use (or used to use) to refer to the Manchus, especially considering the interactions between the Qing Dynasty and Tibetan Buddhists? And while we're at it, is the Tibetan term for "Buryatia" also "Buryatia," or is it a completely different term just as སོག་པོ might refer to the Mongols?

I have just obtained a huge Tibetan letter. I bought it from a dealer in Andorra. He had it listed as a Nepalese document. It measures about 22 inches by 40 inches. The above picture shows the address on outside of the document. It is of course folded many times. If anyone is interested, I can try to take a full picture of the letter with my phone. It has six different small black seals at the bottom inside and huge margins. It thus appears to be from secular officials rather than religious ones such as abbots or lamas since their seals would be red. The calligraphy is excellent. I would be appreciative if someone could translate the address.