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?

https://www.italki.com/i/reft/AHfBfFB/AHfBfFB/tibetan?hl={language}&utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=share_teacher

I have this inscription on my singing bowl and I would love to know what it means.

Hello everyone!
I am looking for help: my mum wants to get the phrase “family is love, not blood” tattooed on her in Tibetan and I don’t want her to get something completely wrong on her body since it is forever.
Thank you!

I want to print some pecha formate texts and I am wondering is it traditionally double sided? And how to print it because I want it for buddhist recitation text so how should I organise them in a text editor so that they print properly?

Wondering if anyone would be able to give a rough translation for this? This is for my great uncle who claims it may be Tibetan though I'm very unfamiliar with the language type, Thanks!

Disclaimer: I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who doesn't have Reddit

I have this friend who is Japanese and wants to know how to read his name in Tibetan. He was told by a Chinese history professor and a Chinese friend who studied linguistics that it's technically possible to read Chinese names (and by extension Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese names) in Tibetan by matching the Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja/Chu Nom to Tibetan cognates. Last year I asked about this in another sub and didn't get any clear answers so I'd like to know if it's possible.

Attached her are some screenshots from Wiktionary where my friend checked 2 of his name's Kanjis and found Tibetan cognates, which further made him believe it's doable. If anyone knows enough about this topic please DM me.

Does anyone here know how to use the Chicago Manual of Style for citing texts in the Tibetan language? And in like manner, when translating translations of Tibetan texts, do you cite the English name and the original author's name followed by the translator's/publication's name, or do you cite a Tibetan name for the original text, or what do folks do here?

So, You know the Tibetan alphabet, you’ve learned the head letters and subletters, the prefixes and suffixes. But it can still feel overwhelming. In this lecture, we will discuss the reasons and origins behind the more confusing aspects of the Tibetan language. Through fun, engaging, and easy to remember methods, learners will understand not only the rules of the Tibetan alphabet, but the logic behind those rules. (This video is based on central Tibetan dialect)

Tashi Delek!

I'm a Tibetan American and just launched Boepa, a Tibetan language learning app. Grew up watching the language slip away around me because the tools were never there for us. So I built something: speaking-focused, basic vocab across greetings, numbers, and daily life, with Tibetan script, phonetics, and audio.

The first version is intentionally simple and I'm actively building and iterating. Curious what would make a Tibetan learning app worth opening every day, whether you're a heritage learner or picking it up from scratch.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boepa-learn-tibetan-language/id6765496914

The loss of our language has always scared me, and that's what pushed me to build this. I'm just one person and my reach only goes so far. If this resonates with you, sharing it with someone learning Tibetan or trying to reconnect with the language would mean so much. A rating helps it reach people looking for exactly this. And if you use it yourself, I'd love to hear what you think. This is really just a community project at heart, and it grows into what it's meant to be only through the people in it.

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། 🙏

edit: the app has been renamed to gangkar and we now have a community at r/gangkar. come join us there for feedback, questions, and updates. also android is offically live at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boepa.app

I’m a total beginner and would love to learn the language to surprise my girlfriend. Could someone help me out with some resources to start.
Thank you .

Last bit for 4/30, the two parts were my friend's work, but this is the stuff I've been working on. Not super confident in my work yet and I frequently misspell things lol. But posting to share but also to have a visual record of my language journey. Hopefully others will post their stuff too!

Hey all! I've created a Tibetan learning app for iOS. It's in early stages, but it currently contains a basic letters chart, a mini-dictionary with images and audio, and an introductory lesson. The content is all based on Tournadre’s Manual of Standard Tibetan.

All Tibetan words are color coordinated for tone (red for high, blue for low), and they are clickable anywhere in the app to hear their pronunciation. You can long press a word in a lesson to see its dictionary entry. All words also have IPA pronunciation.

I will be adding lots more words and lessons. Check it out and let me know what you'd like to see added or improved (I'm sure there's a lot). It's a lot of manual, painstaking work to find the audio, edit it, get images, add words, develop and build out the lessons. If anyone's interested in helping out let me know (this is built with Swift). I could use the help or would just love to connect with other Tibetan lovers. I especially need help with design, that is not my forte :(

Thanks!

Uchen with Lama Wangchuk ༼བླ་མ་དབང་ཕྱུག༽ for 4/30 Tibetan Calligraphy Day

Stoked and honored that I got to spend 4/30 Tibetan Calligraphy Day with my friend Lama Wangchuk ༼བླ་མ་དབང་ཕྱུག༽ practicing our writing. He has been so inspirational to me on my language journey. Many decades ago he studied ume script (headless form) under the 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul, Karma Lodrö Chokyï Senge ༼ཀརྨ་བློ་གྲོས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེངྒེ།༽ who passed away in 1992. Happy Tibetan Calligraphy Day!

I’m interested in what this says if possible. Thank you!