Hi I was wondering if anyone knows how to use the samw font. I have looked at the nirtartha website and can find nothing on producing documents in samw. I...
Hello! I'd advise you to use the Tibetan Machine Web font, made by the Tibetan Computer Company (www.tibet.dk/tcc), which is free and easily downloaded (It can...
My experience with the TibetanMachine font (not the Web version) is apparently atypical, but there may be someone out there who can relate. I'm thrilled to be...
Carleton Copeland
Carleton.Copeland@...
Nov 6, 2003 6:34 pm
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I haven't used TibetanMachine that much - I prefer TibetanMachine Web. After a lot of websearching and experimenting, I have come to realize that the ...
Here's a novel request: I've found lots of good recommendations on this list and elsewhere for beginning students of Tibetan, but I need help in choosing a...
Carleton Copeland
Carleton.Copeland@...
Nov 26, 2003 6:23 pm
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http://www.beginnersmind.org/cgi-bin/lotsawa (this was earlier placed on www.tsongkhapa.org that is down for an unknown amount of time). Thanks to Preston Cox...
Hi, see: http://beginnersmind.org/cgi-bin/lotsawa?Recent_Changes for the latest changes, all the time. I started to add in interesting material, more info ...
Okay, Kent. I've downloaded the Tibetan and the ACIP Wylie versions of the text. Now, will you be leading us through the translation of the text? Do you want...
... Hi, yes it's best if there's some structure, so I will post some simple guidelines below. Meanwhile, feel free to download the material, and even try to...
One good tool to get access to is a good Tibetan dictionary, see: http://www.beginnersmind.org/cgi-bin/lotsawa?Tibetan_Dictionaries for more info about those....
Ok, let's start. ... ,RGYA GAR SKAD DU, BO DHI SATVA TZ'AR+YA AA BA T'A RA shAT+TRIm SHATA PAndI AARTHA, BOD SKAD DU, BYANG CHUB SEMS DPA'I SPYOD PA LA 'JUG...
I will let someone else do the Sanskrit. BOD SKAD DU, BOD - Tibet SKAD - language DU - la don particle in the language of Tibet in Tibetan I generally like to...
Hi, I'm testing out the use of TCC Web tibetan fonts on the lotsawa server. If you have time, please try it out with various browsers/platforms and let me know...
BOD SKAD DU, In Tibetan language BYANG CHUB SEMS DPA'I Bodhisattva SPYOD PA LA conduct into 'JUG PA'I of entering [Title of Shantideva text] DON meaning ...
Thanks Mike. That was great. I've seen SPYOD PA translated as "practices" as another alternative. Is there a quick reference guide to the Tibetan translation...
Works on my AOL email. In a message dated 12/17/03 4:35:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, lotsawa@yahoogroups.com writes: Subject: Testing out Tibetan fonts on the...
... Hi, you mean pronunciation? Here's one, the ACIP standard, there are many others: http://www.asianclassics.org/download/pronunciation.html Referenced at: ...
Looking ahead in the text, I would be inclined to translate don bsdus to convey a meaning of condensation, abridgement, etc. Rather than being a commentary...
Chris Goodman
cgoodman@...
Dec 17, 2003 11:26 pm
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... Yes, this is funny, I did some quick comparisons between the root text and this 36-abbreviated topics version, and a lot could be found, but not...
In connection with the Tibetan Machine Web, I have Windows XP and Word Perfect 10 on the computer. The Macros for the vowels and stacking keys don't work...
... When I type in texts, what I usually do is to use the ACIP text format, and then later convert it to the font, TCC, or Sambhota, using various translation...
This interests me as well, it's similar, yet there are differences. There is significance as well in the passages that Dharmapala does choose to include. I...
Chris Goodman
cgoodman@...
Dec 18, 2003 3:37 pm
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Ok, I will fill in the gaps, but I don't know Sanskrit, so some of this will have placeholders (asked around for some of the issues, might have a good teacher...
SANGS RGYAS DANG BYANG CHUB SEMS DPA' THAMS CAD LA PHYAG 'TSAL LO, This is still in the easy side! Feel free to post any translations now. mangalam, Kent...
Hi Kent and fellow lotsawas, Augusto from Brazil here. It's one of my first posts here, but, since this is really easy, I'll risk a translation (please bear in...
Hi, Sorry, it's hard to think in Wylie (or ACIP for that matter)... What I meant with the LO in PHYAG 'TSHAL LO is that is it a RDZOGS TSHIG, defined in ...
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas THAMS CAD LA of all times / in all directions PHYAG 'TSHAL LO, I pay homage Thus: I pay homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of...
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