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reading tibetan manuscripts skip to primary content reading tibetan manuscripts search main menu home blog resources dungkar s great encyclopaedia the tibetan script old orthography punctuation and ornamentation the invention of the tibetan alphabet from the pillar testament bibliography tutorial this site is a loosely structured tutorial on reading ancient tibetan manuscripts by sam van schaik all examples are from the dunhuang manuscripts dating from the early 9th to the late 10th centuries the earliest surviving tibetan manuscripts new tutorial pages will be added regularly as the site develops into a complete guide to reading the dunhuang manuscripts contents 1 old orthography i the strong da da drag ii the ma attached to ya ma ya btags iii the subfixed a a rten iv the reverse gi gu gi gu rlog 2 punctuation and ornamentation i the double tsheg ii the mid line tsheg iii the long tsheg this site is daughter to my main site earlytibet com share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x recent posts the invention of the tibetan alphabet posted on september 14 2007 by sam van schaik reply now available under the resources tab my translation of the oldest extant version of the story of the invention of the tibetan alphabet this is the pillar testament bka chems ka khol ma which is said to have been retrieved from a pillar in the jokhang by atiśa in the mid 11th century modern scholarship dates the various extant versions of the text to the 11th or 12th centuries coming as it does some 400 years after the invention of the tibetan script this shouldn t be read as an accurate historical account its value is in being the first version of popular story of tönmi sambhoṭa and in its detailed if not necessarily accurate account of how the brahmi alphabet of india was transformed into a tibetan alphabet share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x posted in uncategorized leave a reply the tibetan script according to dungkar leave a reply new bibliography leave a reply new the double tsheg leave a reply a resource for reading ancient tibetan manuscripts leave a reply create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed reading tibetan manuscripts sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy reading tibetan manuscripts copy shortlink view post in reader manage subscriptions sign up log in report this content collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started