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Clear Mirror on Royal Genealogy (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རབས་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང, Wylie: rgyal rabs gsal ba'i me long; "The clear mirror" for short) was a pseudo-historical work written by Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen, who was a ruler of Sakya during 14th century.
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]
All these languages are part of the Western Tibetan language grouping [4] [11] [12] and quite distinct from the Central, Amdo and Khams Tibetan spoken varieties. Alongside his main Tibetan translation work, Jäschke translated the Harmony of the Gospels, a selection of texts used by the Moravian church in Easter Week, into vernacular Ladakhi ...
Uchen script is a written Tibetan script that uses alphabetic characters to physically record the spoken languages of Tibet and Bhutan. Uchen script emerged in between the seventh and early eighth century, alongside the formation and development of the Tibetan Empire.
The Takpa or Dakpa language (Tibetan: དག་པ་ཁ་, Wylie: dak pa kha), Dakpakha, known in India as Tawang Monpa, [4] also known as Brami in Bhutan, [5] is an East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, and in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Kyaleng (Shongphu gewog), Phongmed Gewog, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.
The Pali word 'sādhu' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'sādh' which means 'to accomplish', 'to succeed', or 'to be efficient'. [11] [12] By adding the suffix '-u', it creates the adjective meaning 'accomplished' or 'efficient.' [13] The meaning describes someone who has succeeded in their spiritual or moral endeavors. [14]
These Seventeen Tantras are to be found in the Canon of the Ancient School, the Nyingma Gyubum (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ, Wylie: rnying ma rgyud 'bum), volumes 9 and 10, folio numbers 143-159 of the edition edited by Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche commonly known as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Thimpu, Bhutan, 1973 ...
Fragment of the Testament of Ba at the British Library, with six lines of Tibetan script (Or.8210/S.9498A).. The Testament of Ba or the Chronicle of Ba [1] [2] (Tibetan དབའ་བཞེད or སྦ་བཞེད; Wylie transliteration: dba' bzhed or sba bzhed) is a chronicle written in Classical Tibetan of the establishment of Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet, the ...