Tibetan Terms
Presenting more than 237,000 Tibetan
dictionary entries.
Learn about Terms
Terms provide definitions, pronunciations, and more for the Tibetan language. Definitions from variuos dictionaries are presented together and include related media like audio and video, images, and texts.
Explore Tibetan Terms
Terms provide definitions, pronunciations, and more for the Tibetan language. Definitions from various dictionaries are presented together and include related media like audio and video, images, and texts.
Tibetan Dictionary Resources
Tibetan Romanization
- THL Extended Wylie Transliteration
- Tibetan Transliteration Converter
- THL Tibetan Phonetics
- Tibetan Phonetics Converter
Related Languages Romanization
- Chinese
- Mongolian
- Hindi
- Nepali
- Sanskrit and Prakrit
Featured Groups of Terms
Meditation Terms
Buddhist meditation terms that run the gamut of practices from the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna traditions, such as stabilizing and analytical meditation (’jog sgom and dpyad sgom), tantric and Dzokchen practices, meditation postures, and more.
Philosophical Terms
Buddhist philosophical terms, largely drawn from abhidharma (metaphysics) systems by way of The Collected Topics genre of literature, on topics such as cause and effect, one and many, types of negation, and more.
David Higgins Terms
Ornare suspendisse sed nisi lacus sed viverra tellus in. Viverra nam libero justo laoreet sit amet cursus sit. Natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus. Tortor at risus viverra adipiscing at in tellus integer. Lacus luctus accumsan tortor posuere ac ut consequat. Tincidunt lobortis feugiat vivamus at augue eget.
Featured Terms & Tools
ཐང་ཀ – thang ka
Tibetan thangka painting grew out of the Indian paṭa and Nepalese paubhā traditions.
མངོན་བྱང་ལྔ་ – mngon byang lnga
The five-step process by which a bodhisattva becomes fully awakened according to esoteric texts.
Tibetan Transliteration Scheme
Documentation of the transliteration scheme devised by Turrell Wylie and extended by THL.
Transliteration Tool
A tool for converting between Unicode Tibetan and Latin-script transliteration.
