Tibetan Library
Bring a word, a sentence, a voice, a page or a picture.
The Library tells you what it is.
Ask it anything.
Its meaning
Its sound, its spelling chant, and a sentence from life.
OpenIn the other language
The same, in English or in Tibetan.
Opening soonThe words
Written as they are spoken.
Opening soonThe text
Ready to read, search and copy. A new reader is opening soon.
OpenWho is shown
And how sure it is.
In the workshopGrown from how Tibetan is truly spoken.
It starts with the words people use most.
And gives them the meaning, the sound and the sentence.
People, places, voices.
Lives, monasteries and places, each with its story.
Elders' oral histories, gathered with summaries.
Texts and recordings, gathered from many shelves into one.
Tibetan community life around the world: monasteries, centres, gathering places.
New shelves are being built.
A sound shelf
Listen with the words.
ComingA reading room
Old pages, readable again.
ComingAn art shelf
The measure and meaning of sacred art.
ComingA data shelf
What we publish for researchers, each with its citation.
ComingAlso here: the Tibetan calendar, and a guide to Tibetan names.
What lives here.
Conversation
Two people together, one phone between them. One speaks Tibetan, the other English.
Opening soonSee it →The call
Two people far apart, each on their own phone. One speaks Tibetan, the other English.
Opening soonSee it →Live captions
Someone speaks, and their words appear on the screen as they talk, in Tibetan and English.
Opening soonSee it →Spoken Tibetan
Written Tibetan, turned into the Tibetan people speak at home.
In the workshopSee it →A living dictionary
A Tibetan–English dictionary grown from how Tibetan is truly spoken.
OpenSee it →Every word, opened
Tap any word to see how it is built, spelled aloud, sounded and changed.
Opening soonSee it →Art that speaks
Point a camera at Tibetan art, and it names the deity, tells you about them, and says how sure it is.
In the workshopSee it →Help carry it
forward.
Every font, every game, every song began with someone who believed it mattered.