Dear members, I am writing to pass along the following news that Yungchen Lhamo is releasing her first new CD in years, and will be performing on May 5 at...
Funny, I nowadays work for the fruit company, but I'm not sure about the state of art concerning Unicode fonts and MacOSX. Has anyone any info how well the...
I have started a blog about my experiences using the Macintosh platform with the Tibetan Language. Please feel free to add comments and suggestions. I am...
Thanks for taking a second to help me. I've been searching and searching and trying to learn enough about the Tibetan language to properly translate the...
Hi, I've seen this now in two places in a text I'm translating, and not sure how to translate it, dkyus has so many meanings, untruth, speed, flee, wring...
Hi, if you have information about companies, organizations, and other locations wherefrom you could order Tibetan texts, across any linages, either place this...
I've been twice to that bookstore, and both times I forgot to take information about how to contact them via email (or fax). bag chags .... Does anyone have...
Hi all! Can someone tell me how to write a 'Ra' with a subscribed 'Ya' (like in the word 'arya') with the WylieWord program? I'm pretty sure that there must be...
... Oh, I've had the problem myself, the little I could figure out is here: http://jigtenmig.blogspot.com/2006/08/bodhisattva-way-of-life-sanskrit-title.html I...
Hi, ... This is a bit complicated. The general answer is that in the Extended Wylie Transliteration System (EWTS) used by WylieWord, you can get any stack...
'This body of mine and your body, O father, This speech of mine and your speech, O father, This mind of mine and your mind, O father, Through your inspiring...
Dear friends, I would like to ask you if anybody know about Tibetan phonetics being transliterated into the International phonetic Alphabet - IPA? I tried to...
... I would think that would be tough, with all the Tibetan dialects, unless one is standardizing on the Lhasa dialect.. I have not seen a good way to...
Dear Margaret, I think the correct (& not phonetic) transcription, done in hideous "extended Wylie" would be: oM su pra tiSh+Tha badz+ra ye swA hA Or in...
I have just begun to learn the alphabet and am already confused by what appears to be a contradiction in the sound of the first gutteral. From previous study...
It's the famous how is ka pronounced, some spell it phonetically as ka, others ga, I think the answer is somewhere between. It also depends how ka is...
Try www.learntibetan.net where you can listen. The first column letter is "ka." "Ga" appears in the third column. In listening, the sound may really be between...
I don't think Padma is correct. In the first four sets of four letters, neither the first nor third letter is aspirated; only the second one is. The ...
Hello all, I've been told that regional accents make a difference here too. I first started learning tibetan at a Kagyu centre and then later at a Geluk one. I...
Hi everyone, this is my first post so I hope I don't embarrass myself too badly. I'd have to second Roger, I've been self studying Tibetan for a few years now,...
I was talking about the difference between "ka" and "ga" in *English*, not in Tibetan, as far as aspiration. -Padma demmer8@... wrote: I don't think Padma...
Hi! My name is Andreia, I'm from portugal, and i'm learning tibetan language. But i'm finding it very difficult to do so on my own, so i'm requesting your...
