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  2. Thonmi Sambhota - Wikipedia

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    Thonmi Sambhota (Thönmi Sambhoṭa, (Tib. ཐོན་མི་སམ་བྷོ་ཊ།, Wyl. thon mi sam+b+ho Ta; c.619-7th C.) is the Tibetan minister who according to legends created the first Tibetan script, base on the Gupta alphabet after being sent by King Songsten Gampo to study in India. [2]

  3. Tibetan script - Wikipedia

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    A text in Tibetan script suspected to be Sanskrit in content. From the personal artifact collection of Donald Weir. The Tibetan alphabet, when used to write other languages such as Balti, Chinese and Sanskrit, often has additional and/or modified graphemes taken from the basic Tibetan alphabet to represent different sounds.

  4. Tibetan calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    A variety of different styles of calligraphy exist in Tibet: The Uchen (དབུ་ཅན།, "headed"; also transliterated as uchan or dbu-can) style of the Tibetan script is marked by heavy horizontal lines and tapering vertical lines, and is the most common script for writing in the Tibetan language, and also appears in printed form because of its exceptional clarity.

  5. ʼPhags-pa script - Wikipedia

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    The Phagspa, ʼPhags-pa or ḥPʻags-pa script [1] is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa (1235–1280) for Kublai Khan (r. 1264–1294 ), the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) in China, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan.

  6. Zanabazar square script - Wikipedia

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    Zanabazar's square script is a horizontal Mongolian square script (Mongolian: Хэвтээ Дөрвөлжин бичиг, romanized: Hevtee Dörvöljin bichig or Хэвтээ Дөрвөлжин Үсэг, Hevtee Dörvöljin Üseg), [1] an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar based on the Tibetan alphabet to write Mongolian.

  7. Lhasa Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich August Jäschke of the Moravian mission which was established in Ladakh in 1857, [8] Tibetan Grammar and A Tibetan–English Dictionary. At St Petersburg, Isaac Jacob Schmidt published his Grammatik der tibetischen Sprache in 1839 and his Tibetisch-deutsches Wörterbuch in 1841. His access to Mongolian sources had enabled him to enrich ...

  8. The tattooed Secretary of Defense: Here is all of Pete ... - AOL

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    President-Elect Donald Trump’s controversial Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is a war veteran, double Ivy Leaguer, a two-time Bronze Star recipient – and is covered in tattoos.

  9. Wylie transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter.The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who created the system and published it in a 1959 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article. [1]