THE PLAN

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This project aims to develop a Tibetan keyboard with transliteration and word suggestion capabilities. The keyboard will allow users to type in Romanized Tibetan (e.g., "tasi," "trashi," or "tashi") and receive real-time suggestions in Tibetan script.

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Targeting our generation - (internet generation), this is primarily for the ease of use and the ease of learning of the Tibetan lexicon in an age where the abrahamic lexicon is overpowering the realm of communication and education. This is carried out in aims to preserve the deep meaning of the words that are seldom accurately translated, for a tradition and a language that was developed with the aspiration to keep wisdom and gentleness alive as a living experience - taking many arduous centuries of rulers, translators, laborers, saints and politicians, and a lot of lives human and non-human.

In a bold attempt to prolong the life of such a tradition and vision, to show heart and feeling to the sacrifice of these visionaries, thinking of the Three Great Dharma Kings, what they went through with their subjects, and thinking of Guru Rinpoche - the jewel of the world, the great translators of the old and the new traditions of translation, It would be such a shame if we are not able to commit to prolonging the life of the dharma.

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To Longchenpa the brilliant sun that burns darkness constantly - Khenrinpoche, the eyes that I never knew I had. With deep love and devotion,

Oedzer.

Project Documentation

མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ཀུ་མཱ་ར་བྷཱུ་ཏ་ཡེ་ནམཿ།

Manjushri the embodiment of all the buddhas wisdom

Loden Choksey the sharp sword of intellect

Vimalamitra the wish-fulfilling tree

Longchenpa the eyes of the world

Jamyang Gyepe Loden Lord of awareness

Guide my motivation and my actions

May the words of truth never decline

And survive the test of time

May it reach out to and touch everyone's heart

About

Lotsawa Keyboard is a Tibetan/Dzongkha transliteration keyboard for iOS that converts romanized input — phonetic or Wylie — into Tibetan script (བོད་ཡིག། / རྫོང་ཁ།) with predictive suggestions and contextual disambiguation.

Targeting the internet generation, this project preserves the deep meaning of Tibetan words that are seldom accurately translated — for a tradition and language developed with the aspiration to keep wisdom and gentleness alive as a living experience.

In a bold attempt to prolong the life of such a tradition and vision, to honor the sacrifice of the Three Great Dharma Kings, Guru Rinpoche, and the great translators of old and new traditions.

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