The Tibetan Script
Index and Links
This Site
The Tibetan Script
My free Tibetan Script Fonts:
Tibetan Script Input Methods
Tibetan & Dzongkha computing:
Configuring OpenOffice.org for Dzongkha & Tibetan
Standardization:
Tibetan Script in the UCS - ISO 10646 JTC1/SC2/WG2 Documents related to Tibetan script
Unicode / ISO 10646 Table of Tibetan characters
Precomposed Tibetan - Part A - Mapping tables from GB/T 20542-2006 "Tibetan coded character set Extension A" [PRC national standard for pre-composed Tibetan] to standard Unicode characters for Tibetan script.
Precomposed Tibetan - Part B - Mapping tables from GB/T 22238-2008 "Tibetan coded character set Extension B" to standard Unicode characters for Tibetan script.
Western Names in Tibetan Script:
Given or Christian Names
Surnames
External Links
Tibetan Calligraphy (how to):
Learning to write Tibetan - Don grub (PDF/ DjVu)
Tibetan Writing Course - Marc Turin (Quick Time video)
Tibetan Script Fonts:
Free Fonts
Jomolhari Font - at THL
Tibetan Machine Uni - THL
Qomolangma fonts - (CTRC)
Tibetan & Dzongkha Input Methods
TISE Wylie input method (for Windows) - Grigory Mokhin
Denjong TibType - (for Windows 32bit & 64bit) similar to TISE
Tibetan & Dzongkha Input for Macintosh - Christopher E. Walker
Note: Mac OSX comes with three Tibetan Input Methods: Tibetan - Otani, Tibetan - QWERTY, and Tibetan - Wylie.
Wylie input in Javascript - David Linton
Tibetan Character Picker - Richard Ishida
Tibetan (Chöke) Texts:
Karma Lekshey Ling Institute - Dharma Downloads
Standardization / Character Encoding:
Tibetan Block of the Unicode Standard - The Unicode Consortium
BabelMap Online chart of the Tibetan block in the UCS - BabelMap
Tibetan Dictionaries (on-line / electronic):
Tibetan to English Dictionary & Translation Tool - Andrés Montano Pellegrini
Tibetan-English-Tibetan Dictionary ~ Palden Tashi, Kevin Stuart, Rinchen Dorji, et al (2007) Open Source book
A Tibetan-English dictionary, with Sanskrit synonyms - Sarat Chandra Das (1902)
English-Tibetan colloquial dictionary - Sir Charles A. Bell (1920)
A Tibetan-English dictionary - H.A Jäschke (1881)
An English-Tibetan dictionary - Kazi Dawa Samdup (1919)
The Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Culture
Tibetan Transliteration & Transcription:
Library of Congress Tibetan Romanization - scanned text from the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription - T. V. Wylie (HTMLized version of the original article).
Teaching THL Extended Wylie - A. Anton-Luca
Mailing Lists:
Tibscript Mailing List - Specialized discussion regarding Tibetan scripts in and out of computing environments.
Portals:
Digital Tibetan - An exellent informative wiki on using Tibetan Unicode software and fonts on different computer platforms.
Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) - A comprehensive site for Tibetan studies - The tools section includes detailed sections on Tibetan script, Tibetan computing, fonts and much more.
Tibetan Portal - This is the "blog format" version of Chris Walker's useful site. Link to original Tibetan Portal.
Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems - Ed Trager's excellent resource. Unicode fonts for almost every script.
More Links…
Tibetan Calligraphy Links — at Himalayan Art
Blogs:
Tibetan Scripts - an occasional blog about writing systems used in Tibet and the Himalayan region - as well as character encoding, fonts and software for Tibetan and related writing systems.
Reading Tibetan Manuscripts - on the History of the Tibetan script and reading ancient Tibetan manuscripts.
Dungkar’s Great Encyclopaedia: The Tibetan Script - translated by Sam van Schaik.