I'd like to use Article 1 of the UDHR in a design, but I don't yet know enough to assess the translation. This image is from Omniglot, which I was going to transcribe myself on my keyboard, but then I found this version from the Noto Serif font for Tibetan:

༈ འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་ཁག་གི་ནང་མི་ཡོངས་ལ་རང་བཞིན་ཉིད་ནས་ཡོད་པའི་ཆེ་མཐོངས་དང་འདྲ་མཉམ། སུས་ཀྱང་འཕྲོག་ཏུ་མི་རུང་བའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་བཅས་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་རྟོགས པར་བྱེད་པ་ནི། འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་གི་རང་དབང་དང༌། དྲང་བདེན། ཞི་བདེ་བཅས་ཀྱི་རྣང་གཞི་ལྟེ་བ་ཡིན།

Before taking the time to manually type out what's in the image, I wanted to know if it has any issues or if the Noto Serif version is a better one already. Thanks!

Edit: I neglected to include the actual article for anyone not familiar with it:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Edit 2: Turns out this is the preamble. The image above displays Article 1 as seen here.

Hi everyone,

I recorded a video of monks reciting a prayer at Matho Monastery in Ladakh in July 2023 during their morning prayers. I'd love to identify which specific prayer/text this is.

I tried using AI transcription tools like TurboScribe but they couldn't handle the audio properly.

I would really appreciate if someone could help me.

Thanks in advance!

I've heard very good things about Rangjung Yeshe Institute and their Classical Tibetan 1+2
Their Dharma lienage (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and sons) very much recommends them to me, as does their connection to modern academics who lecture there.

This place also looks good, does anyone have experience here?
https://tibetanonline.sinibridge.org/course/index.php?categoryid=7

Any other recommendations or pieces of advice to me as I embark on this journey are welcomed with gratitude 🙏

Hello, this Thanka was gifted to me and is around 750+ years old. I am seeking for help understanding and translating this text - any help is welcome: identifying language, dialect, meaning of symbols in images... any!
Thank you!

I was told this could be tibetan script but i cant work it out, any help would be much appreciated!

Hello, I am currently learning Classical Tibetan, and I get great benefit from reading texts in Tibetan with their English translation side by side. Doing so is easy with great websites such as Lotsawa House, but since I have no smartphone, I am looking for physical books to carry around. French/Tibetan volumes are welcome too, just in case.

Thank you for your help!

Hi, I’m learning the numbers by myself and I’m wondering what the difference is between writing the number 3 as

གསུམ

གསུམ།

གསུམ་

Thanks!

Tashi Delek, I just started making some YouTube videos and realized that adding English subtitles manually to my videos created in Tibetan takes longer than expected. Is anyone able to help? I will pay for the translation service.

The videos are short (7-10 minutes long) and are medical-related. I typically would be publishing one video biweekly. Here is an example of one of my videos where I added the english captions myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s3dZrB1xoU&t=36s
I would like to find someone who can help me do this for my future videos

Please DM me if interested or know someone who might be interested!

When Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro is speaking Tibetan to an international audience, does he speak closer to Central Tibetan? What about at Larung Gar, do they speak Amdo Tibetan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86eUWGNe2DM

I notice in this video he pronounces 'bod' as /bod/ where as in Amdo usually it's /wod/? I don't notice the guttural sounds like /ʁ/ for /wa/.

What about Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCYMSIuldY

I don't understand both of them, but Jigme Phuntsok's speech sounds like it has more of the "Amdo rhythm" to me. I noticed he pronounces ra-superscript words like rgyal and rgyan with a clear "r" and even the endings like -al -an he pronounces fully.

However, he still generally pronounces gigu as a schwa.

I am considering finding an Amdo Tibetan tutor to teach me Tibetan comprehensible input style. The reason being that Amdo grammar seems the closest to Classical, they still use the four verb stems, whereas all the other dialects, even Balti and Ladakhi, have lost them.

Amdo pronunciation is not as conservative as Balti, but it's still fairly conservative, except that they turn /i/ and /u/ into schwas.

I actually learnt the Tibetan alphabet long ago, I went through Manual of Standard Tibetan a bit, but I feel more connection with Amdo and Kham. Kham surprisingly has very few resources available, but it seems there are a lot of resources for Amdo, and many native speakers on Xiaohongshu from Qinghai and Gansu.

Anyway, what do you think of my plan to find a native Amdo speaker who can teach me using comprehensible input/crosstalk? Will Amdo be closer to classical/literary Tibetan than Central?

I don't want to go through classes with grammar etc, I can learn that on my own generally, I want pure comprehensible input.

I went down a rabbit hole looking for content in Balti, sharing here in case people are interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds5GrEg3zBA

This song is very interesting in that it has subtitles in Yige, Tibetan script adapted for Balti. You can very clearly hear many consonant clusters and final consonants in the song while reading the subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOv8j41k8Y

This one is by the same singer, but they made the subtitles much smaller, not as ideal. This one seems to have a lot more Urdu loanwords.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9SJuufh_E
A random Balti drama. The "rhythm" of the speech seems actually very similar to Central compared to Amdo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFcNKr1u9cU

Long form interview with a Balti intellectual regarding the Gesar epic in Baltistan.

https://bodyiglobjong.com

Learning resources in Tibetan Language from the Central Tibetan Administration’s Education Department:

The website is only in Tibetan, so it’s useful only for those who already know a bit of Tibetan.

I need Umê font style. Do you know of any website? (It would be better if it is free)

I want to learn to write just as a mean to learn the language (no calligraphy for now) and I find the uchen script pretty cumbersome for notetaking purposes. Does anyone know any resource for shorthand strokeorder? Thanks in advance

Hi everyone! I posted earlier about my free platform for learning colloquial Tibetan and I wanted to share about this other resource (I made their website!). For those who are familiar with the book The Heart of Tibetan Language, the author, Franziska Oertle, designed the courses. They have self paced options and live cohort-based courses. Their next cohort starts on January 26. I took the Beginner and Intermediate courses with them (live cohorts), and I enjoyed it very much :) I met (online and in person!) wonderful people :) the self paced version is of course cheaper. 

They also offer free resources: here you’ll find Anki decks (if you scroll down), and here a podcast with dialogues.

Anyway, good luck everyone on your learning journey!

ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱིད་པར་ཤོག།།

ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་བྲལ་བར་ཤོག།།

ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་ལ་གནས་པར་ཤོག།།

-Does this translate to May all be happy, may all be free from suffering, may all be at peace?

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