To chant a prayer, you often need to know how the Tibetan is pronounced. Phonetics tools turn Tibetan script into letters a reader of English can pronounce; Wylie is a scholarly transliteration of the Tibetan spelling itself.
Mantras are different: they are Sanskrit written in Tibetan letters. IAST is the standard scholarly way of writing Sanskrit with Latin letters, and a few tools below convert Tibetan mantras straight into it.
The phonetics converter of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, in its Tibetan Terms section. THL describes its Simplified Phonemic Transcription as its system for easy-to-pronounce romanized Tibetan.
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library's online converter between Tibetan script and Wylie transliteration, in its Tibetan Terms section.
Transliterates mantras written in Tibetan script into IAST and phonetics. Also compares an existing transliteration with the generated one.
Provides the pronunciation of a passage of Tibetan text, using one of several systems including Lotsawa House's own and the THL Simplified Phonemic Transcription.
Converts Tibetan script into phonetics with customizable sets of rules. A compare page shows the differences between your existing phonetics and the generated ones.
Converts mantras from Unicode Tibetan into IAST and phonetics. Available on npm.
A Python library that transliterates Tibetan-encoded Sanskrit mantras into IAST and phonetics. Shares its data with the JavaScript version.
The shared replacement-map data (Tibetan, IAST, phonetics) used by the JavaScript and Python transliteration libraries. Published for both npm and Python.
Deconstructs a single Unicode Tibetan syllable into its parts - prefix, superscribed, root, subscribed, vowel, suffix and more.
Converts Tibetan Unicode text into phonetics based on customizable sets of rules. The engine behind the Tibetan to Phonetics web app.
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