Terma Heritage Foundation safeguards Tibetan and Himalayan knowledge — and carries it forward — through technology, arts, education, and community.
1,000,000+ children
Tibetan children in Chinese-occupied Tibet are forced into state boarding schools where their language is banned and replaced with Mandarin. An entire generation is being cut off from its mother tongue.
Vanishing heritage
Ancient manuscripts, sacred art, and oral traditions are disappearing. Monasteries have been destroyed. Elders who carry living memory of pre-1959 Tibet are passing away. Without urgent action, this knowledge is gone forever.
A civilization at stake
Over a millennium of Tibetan philosophy, medicine, astronomy, and Buddhist scholarship — one of humanity’s great knowledge systems — risks being erased within a single generation.
We work at every stage of cultural survival — from rescue to renewal.
Recovering recordings, manuscripts, and oral histories before the elders who hold them pass and the originals decay.
Creating the tools communities need to read, write, and study in their own script — because the Tibetan internet does not yet work the way it should.
Making Tibetan joyful for children, so the language survives in the mouths of the young — not only in archives.
Keeping Tibetan culture vibrant as a living tradition — through elders, artists, and the gatherings that hold a community together.
Free, offline, and built for the community — two flagship tools, live and ready to download.
LiveThe first word processor built from the ground up for bilingual Tibetan and English writing. Type in Wylie, get Tibetan Unicode. 100% offline.
LiveA companion for the Tibetan lute — an accurate tuner built to a standard confirmed with renowned Tibetan musicians, a playable instrument, and an offline library of its history.
Beyond the Archive
Preservation is not only digital. We produce children’s songs in the mother tongue, sustain performing arts groups in exile, document lute melodies passed down only by ear, and create moments where the culture is lived — not just stored.
Explore Our ProgramsYour support funds children's educational materials, digital language tools, community programs, and the cultural infrastructure that keeps Tibetan language and heritage alive.
