Tibetan,
carried forward.
A language and its arts, made ready for the century ahead. From masters and elders, to children, to every screen.
A treasure kept for the future, and found when the time is right. That is our work: find what matters, keep it open, hand it on.
One family. Every way in.
The Terma Family is our family of websites, each with its own purpose. Whatever brings you to Tibetan, there is a door.
Tibetan Library
Bring a word, a sentence, a voice, a page or a picture. The Library tells you what it is.
Open
Genla
Genla means teacher. Lessons, typing and the tools to write Tibetan, for every age.
Opening soon
gamchung
The small box: Tibetan games where the culture is the game.
Open
Terma Foundry
Where we make and publish our own Tibetan typefaces, and gather the best of the rest.
Open
Dumra
Dumra means garden. Writers grow and publish their own work, Tibetan and English side by side.
ComingNew ground
for Tibetan.
Tibetan opens to the world. The world opens to Tibetan.
WRITE
- Sound typing
- Dictation
- A writing companionexplains its marks, citing the classical grammarians
- The grammarians, open
READ
- Every page
- Spoken Tibetanthe written, said the way people speak
- A living dictionary
- Every word, opened
Children keep a language alive.
A language lives in the hours children choose. So Tibetan lives in their games, their songs and their screens.
Some things only a master can pass on.
Voices we kept.
Great teachers and rare voices, brought back from failing tape.
The rescued recordingsOpen.What belongs to the Tibetan people stays free.
Credited.Masters and elders are named, thanked and paid.
True.We say plainly when we are not sure.
For children.Everything made so a child can find a way in.
For every tradition.Open to all Tibetan traditions.
Lasting.Built to outlast any one of us.
Carried by masters, scholars and artists.
Under the patronage of His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, with advisers in calligraphy, language teaching, research, music and Buddhist guidance.
Help carry it
forward.
Every font, every game, every song began with someone who believed it mattered.