Tibetan script

"The two seed syllables HUM and BHYO evoke the union of the masculine and feminine dharma-protection principles." Chögyam Trungpa

From the 6th April -September 3rd 2012, The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City presents the exhibition 'Illuminated': The art of sacred manuscripts explores the aesthetic and technological approaches in creating and adorning books from a variety of cultures and features illuminated Tibetan manuscripts dating as early as the 13th century. A detail of a 17th century Tibetan manuscript. Take the link here for more details on the exhibition.

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The Tibetan alphabet.

Phags-pa script: In 1260 Kublai Khan commissioned a Tibetan Lama called Blo-gros rGyal-mtshan, who is better known by the title Phags-pa Lama, to create a new national script to replace the Uighur-based script, which was devised in 1208. An edict was issued in 1269 requiring the use of the new script in all official documents, along with the local script as appropriate. (...)

Tibetan is a Tibetic language spoken mainly in Tibet in China, and also in India and Nepal, by about 1.2 million people.

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A resource for visualising and calligraphy of Buddhist mantras and seed syllables. The long awaited print version of the popular Buddhist mantra website: visiblemantra.org. This is a celebration of the visual forms of mantra and other varieties of sacred speech, drawing on Buddhist traditions from India, China, Japan, and Tibet. The book includes all the mantras from the website, plus a few more. Each is presented in four scripts: Siddhaṃ (Bonji 梵字), Lantsa (aka Rañjana), Devanāgarī…

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