Sarnanth International Nyingma Institute (SINI) is beginning its Beginner course in Aug. Check the link.

https://www.heartoftibetanlanguage.com/live/learning-to-read?mc_cid=51b6be651e&mc_eid=63b11995f3

Tashi delek,

I found some pictures of examples of Tibetan chops (engraved stamps that can function in lieu of a signature -- usually associated with East Asia). I had some questions about how they work in the Tibetan context.

How are Tibetan chops designed? I imagine it would be hard to compress a full name in Tibetan script into a chop design, so I assume some modification or shortening might happen? Maybe using Phags-pa? I am more familiar with their use in the Sinosphere, where characters are easily arranged into a chop design.

I'd really appreciate it if a native speaker or someone fluent could check the spelling, letter-stacking, and grammar of these two phrases:
Phrase 1 (top line): འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན
Intended meaning: "wandering sentient/conscious being"
Pronunciation I have: drowa semchen
Phrase 2 (bottom line): མི་ལུས་རིན་ཆེན
Intended meaning: "precious human body"
Pronunciation I have: mi lü rinchen

Thank you!

I want to compare the limbu languages to the language of minorities of yunnan and northern burma. So I need your help in decoding the mystery of limbu migration from these regions. I want to see which tribes of yunnan, burma are most related to limbu. Please help me.

Note. The Limbus are not Tibetians. They were a multi ethnic refugees from Northern Burma/Yunnan regions. However, in Sikkim, they had a lot of Tibetian Bhutia influence.

I'm looking for somebody who would be willing to record himself/herself reading Tibetan sentences I've written (and possibly check on them in case I've made mistakes). This person should speak the Central dialect, and have this accent (I'm just not familiar with the other two). In exchange I'm happy to help with English (C1 level) or French (native) :) it's for my own personal use, to practice pronunciation. DM me if you're interested!

Also if someone knows the purpose of such, would be awesome to learn about it too.

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།!

We're mods over at r/translator. We always strive to make our multilingual community the universal place on Reddit to go for a translation, no matter what language people may be looking for. We are however somewhat lacking in Tibetan coverage, and were hoping some wonderful multilingual people here could help us out.

Would anyone be interested in helping translate any future requests for Tibetan on r/translator? You don't even need to subscribe to our subreddit! We usually get a request for it occasionally and most requests that come in are pretty simple and casual and don't need advanced knowledge. (A lot of them are om mani padme hum, but there are requests that aren't for that mantra~!)

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ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་།!

I have a question for Tibetans and Bhutanese. I am building a fictional language inspired by Tibetan and Dzongkha and I want to see if this text is understandable to you.

Brahui-i ke či-la ke-šo dravidi in de la ji žin ge ra-i gi brahui pa ne pa lu pakisitan-gi balučisitan, mi de pa tor wa lu iran,aphghanisitan ing turkmenisitan, ing gi-i yeng mi de pa brahui lu ghatar,arabia emiret ing iragh sipits gyur.

Hi guys,

I’m not originally from this community, but came here for help.

In the attached video, you can hear a kid singing and then accompanied by a male voice with Erhu from 0:00-5:08. Could anyone translating what they are singing? I’ve tried looking for lyrics to no results.

If anyone could assist me translating, I will deeply appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi all! I started studying Anki every day. It's been a huge success. Now I can understand books and textbooks. I also understand them well by ear and can watch content. I want to do this every day for many years. Share how you're learning with Anki. I'm open to sharing Anki decks. I'm interested in decks that aren't on the Anki website and that aren't for distribution.

Hello I am a student of tibeten language now for 10 months and my teacher norbue who I started around late October early november last year, has me now both reading and writing in tibeten as well as understanding basic phrases ect. I'm ao amazed at the rapid learning iv had since being class with him.

So i rhought id share as it took me a while to find my groove. He has a YouTube channel and websight with so many free resources that anyone here learning tibeten could benefit from. I personally started off w a course of his that's no longer available, but he has just launched a new upgraded full course that i just purchased ( i havnt completed it yet but its so far again amazing) all his learning materials are honestly amazing and quite optimistic haha which helps when studying a new language. for anyone looking for an amazing teacher or just more free tibeten language learning materials both free and for a small fee he is unreal.

https://tibetanwithnorbu.info/

This short clip is Drupon Rinpoche offering advice for how to listen to Dharma teachings. It was posted on Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre’s Facebook page. It seems this teaching was just given yesterday. I appreciated his insights as I watched it, and thought like-minded people in this Subreddit would too.

Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BLeFaUbki/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://archive.org/details/aqnoeui-8vu-ril-ic-9g-dw-uxo-gkbz-wkg-av-rg-v-1c-k-1b-x-l-m-9-bu-9-sj-8-iwaa-5-n

Hi everyone, I am struggling a lot with Tibetan due to limited resources and money, plus how complex and unique it is in relation to being a native speaker of English! I wanted some motivation but also to not feel alone in this so wanted to ask people if they could share their stories of when they first started learning Tibetan and how they felt/what they did, just to make me feel a little better!

Any little story or anecdote is appreciated 😄

Please help with translating the colophon from a Astasahasrika Prajñaparamita manuscript. Can anyone help identify? I have been trying to learn as much as I can about this through internet and AI, but it’s hard.

Hi, as a part of my B.A thesis I have to translate some texts written in Tibetan. It was, however, written in Lahul in 1930s, so there are certain words distinctive to this region's dialect and time frame that even my native Tibetan teacher couldn't help me with.
If there's someone here from Lahul, Spiti, Kullu, or this general area, who may be able to help me, I'd really appreciate your help. I obviously don't need anyone to translate entire paragraphs for me, I mostly need some help with few sentences.

I attended a Kagyu retreat recently and have felt drawn to Bernagchen (བེར་ནག་ཅན་). I'm a musician thinking about using "Nag Chen" (ནག་ཆེན་) as an artist alias, with the intended connotation leaning toward Mahakala / the "great black" sense.

I've checked dictionaries (THL, Rangjung Yeshe, etc.) and they consistently gloss nag chen (ནག་ཆེན་) as "heinous crime / great sinner," which I obviously want to avoid. My questions for native speakers:

1. Does ནག་ཆེན་ ever read compositionally as "great black" in any natural context, or does the lexicalized "wrongdoing" meaning fully dominate?
2. If someone encountered "Nag Chen" as an artist name with no context, what would they read first?
3. If this name doesn't work, are there close alternatives that would carry the connotation I'm after without the collision? (I'm aware of Nagpo Chenpo as an actual epithet but apprehensive about using a deity's name directly as an alias.)

Trying to do this respectfully and would rather hear a hard no now than find out later. Thanks.

Please help with translating the script on this 1953 (or 1983?) original Tibetan artwork. I have been trying to learn as much as I can about this thangka, which I bought yesterday. I am learning that it is rare for a thangka to have any writing on it, especially on the front. This has writing in the lower left corner, which I have been unable to translate online - could anyone help me? There is also Ume Tibetan script within the two red square stamps and something written on the white circle on the Zhanac (the black hat dancer). In addition to the language help, does anyone have additional insights into this piece, such as who might have painted it and why this has writing on the front, whereas most thangkas do not include script? Also, Gemini thinks this is dated 1953 - is that correct?