Tibetan Transliteration Converter

Input settings

Output settings

Translitreation input
Wylie
ACIP

Text input
Unicode (Output: Wylie only, very buggy)

Input field
single line
text area

Graphical output
high res (600dpi, for printing)
screen res (150dpi, antialiased): (for your e-mails and web pages)

Text output
Unicode (for searching the web)

Transliteration output
Wylie (for dictionary lookup)
ACIP

The input field below acepts various Tibetan transliteration inputs in order to convert them to dbu can

graphics,

unicode or transliteration output. If you don't know the Tibetan spelling, use the Online English-Tibetan dictionary.

Examples:
  Wylie:
    brtson 'grus
    tshe ring
    bkra shis bde legs/    (This is how to transliterate 'Tashi deleg')
    oM maNi padme h'uM hr'i:
    oM t'a re tutt'a re tu re sw'a h'a


  ACIP:
    BRTZON 'GRUS           (note the difference: TZ vs. ts)
    TSE RING               (note the difference: TS vs. tsh)

more examples: Names

Native Tibetans may convert transliterated material into Tibetan native alphabet. Use the "text area" input field. You can paste the contents from other pages here.
You search Tibetan texts? Use the unicode output and paste the result as a search term into your favourite search engine.
Before sending unicode by e-mail, make sure that the recipient has a Tibetan unicode font installed. If in doubt, use the graphical output.
Computer assisted translation of ACIP texts: set "Transliteration input" to "ACIP" and Transliteration output to "Wylie". A link to THDL, containing your text, will be prowided in this toolbox.

If you need translation and spelling help, try the following links

Online English-Tibetan dictionary
James Valby's dictionary for MS-DOS from Uwe'sTibetan Software Archive
Nitartha International offers an online version of the Rangjung Yeshe dictionary.
The Tibetan & Himalayan Library hosts a translation tool (not a computer translator, but a multi-word lookup tool doing the guesswork where the words start and end for you).
ACIP is the abbreviation for Asian Classics Input Project, one of the most extensive Tibetan text archives.

Technical note: Graphics output is limited to 8000 characters of transliteration input.