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Tibetan numerals is the numeral system of the Tibetan script and a variety of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It is used in the Tibetan language [1] [2] and has a base-10 counting system. [3] The Mongolian numerals were also developed from the Tibetan numerals. [4] [5]
The Mahāmāyā Tantra was originally translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by the Indian paṇḍita Jinavara and the great Tibetan translator Gö Lhetsé ('gos lhas-btsas) (11th C CE). Recently the Sanskrit text of this tantra has been reconstructed, with the help of the Tibetan text and the extant Sanskrit commentaries, by Samdhong Rinpoche ...
Tibetan Machine Uni is an open source OpenType font for the Tibetan script based on a design by Tony Duff which was updated and adapted for rendering Unicode Tibetan text by the Tibetan and Himalayan Library project at the University of Virginia and released under the GNU General Public License. The font supports a particularly extensive set of ...
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur.The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation of the Word'), and the Tengyur or Tanjur is the commentaries by great masters on Buddha's teachings (or the 'Translation of Treatises').
The verses and the commentary were first translated into a European language by Louis de La Vallée-Poussin, published in 1923–1931 in French, which is primarily based on Xuanzang's Chinese translation but also references the Sanskrit text, Paramārtha's Chinese translation, and the Tibetan. Currently, three complete English translations exist.
According to Khenpo Jikphun (i.e., Jigme Phuntsok) (the only living Tibetan Master I know of who openly and frequently teaches Longchenpa's entire range of Great Perfection writings to a monastic congregation in general), the natural teaching order of The Seven Treasuries is to begin with YZD, which extensively teaches the lower Buddhist and ...
'Tantra of the Secret Society/Community'; Tibetan: གསང་འདུས་རྩ་རྒྱུད, Wylie: gsang 'dus rtsa rgyud), Tōhoku Catalogue No. (Toh) 442, also known as the Tathāgataguhyaka (Secrets of the Tathagata), is one of the most important scriptures of Tantric Buddhism, written in Sanskrit.
This translation became widely known and popular as "the Tibetan Book of the Dead", but contains many mistakes in translation and interpretation. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Another text from the "Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation" is "Self-Liberation through seeing with naked awareness" ( rigpa ngo-sprod [ note 3 ] ), which gives an introduction, or pointing ...