Typing Tibetan on Windows

A small free program, open source, that works in every application: Word, LibreOffice, your email, your browser.

How to Type Tibetan on Windows – Free Wylie Keyboard, Step by Step - watch on YouTube

1. Download the keyboard below and open the file.
2. Your browser and Windows will warn you about an unfamiliar program. Choose Keep, then Keep anyway; then More info, then Run anyway.
3. Install it. Ticking Start automatically and Desktop shortcut is a good idea.
4. Its icon, a Tibetan ཨོཾ, appears among the small icons at the bottom right of the screen, sometimes hidden behind the ^ arrow. Drag it out so that it stays in view.
5. Hold Shift and press Space twice to switch Tibetan on: the icon turns green. Do the same to switch it off.

Download the keyboard for Windows

For a Windows computer with an ARM processor, such as a Surface Pro X, download this version instead. Every combination the keyboard accepts (on GitHub, opens another site). The keyboard is the free, open source Tibetan EWTS Keyboard by bkntr.

• Letters that should sit side by side but would stack, like the g and y of གཡས, are kept apart with a dot: g.yas.
• Stacks that are not standard Tibetan, as in Sanskrit, are joined with a +. For instance: pad+ma gives པདྨ

Guide and videos by Frère Jérémy, from the classical Tibetan course organised by Padmakara and led by Wulstan Fletcher.