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Index Tibetan Calligraphy
How to write the Tibetan dbu-can script
Tibetan dbu-can [pron: "u-chen"] script is traditionally written using a hand-made bamboo
or reed pen cut at an angle. A broad steel nibbed italic calligraphy pen may be used
instead. Calligraphic pens designed for left-handed writers of Roman script are slanted at
a suitable angle for a right-handed person to use when writing Tibetan dbu-chan script.
To produce the proper thickness of horizontal strokes, the width of the pen nib should be
about 1/12th the height of the letter ka.
The pen is held between the thumb and index fingers so that, as you write, the pen may
be rotated to obtain the proper thick and thin strokes. The other fingers are drawn up into
a fist, though some people extend the little finger to form a surface for the hand to rest on
and provide greater stability. Horizontal strokes are written from left to right and vertical
strokes from top down.
The top strokes of Tibetan letters should align with each other. This stroke is always
drawn first.
In complex "stacks" all elements of the stack are usually adjusted in size and shape. The
shape and angle of subscribed gi-gu (vowel sign "u") differs dependent on the letter or
combination it occurs with.
There are several styles of dbu-can script which vary slightly - the design of the examples
I've made for this page are based on a style from Amdo used for writing religious texts.
For combined letters only a few illustrative examples are given.
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The Thirty Consonants
or "Tibetan Alphabet"
ka
kha
ga
nga
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ca
cha
ja
nya
ta
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tha
da
na
pa
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pha
ba
ma
tsa
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tsha
dza
wa
zha
za
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'a
ya
ra
la
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sha
sa
ha
The four Vowel signs:
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gi-gu
zhabs-kyu
'greng-bu
na-ro
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Sub-scribed letters ('dogs can):
sub-scribed ya (ya-btags)
sub-scribed ra (ra btags)
sub-scribed la (la btags)
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wa zur
mgo-can
ra-mgo
la-mgo
sa-mgo
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Punctuation
Tibetan letters for transliterating Sanskrit
x
Related Pages:
Bhutanese style dbu-can
Tibetan Writing Course - by Palden Oshoe & Mark Turin, at Cornell
University Language Resource Center
Calligraphie Tibétain
A Model of the Tibetan gzab Script - with Rules for Calligraphy - T.
G. Dhonthog Rinpoche [in Tibetan]
Elements of the Tibetan Writing System.
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