PKTC - Electronic Publications: Introduction

Electronic Publications

Lama Tony's group is well known for its pioneering work in the field of Tibetan word-processing and text publishing on paper. Our Tibetan! software and fonts have been the mainstay of Tibetan text preservation amongst Tibetans and Westerners for many years. The software and fonts are sold by Tibetan Computer Company.

Recently, he and his group have been developing software for publishing and archiving Tibetan works electronically. The new software is written for the Windows environment and consists of TibetD and TibetDoc. The group is now using the new software to publish large amounts of native Tibetan works in electronic format. E.g., the entire output of the large project Lama Tony did during the 1990's, the Drukpa Kagyu Heritage Project, will be published electronically by us. We are also using the software to publish our electronic tools for Tibetan studies. We have developed electronic dictionaries and other reference works that take advantage of the features TibetD software. These publications herald a new era in Tibetan studies.

An important point to note is that the TibetD Reader software provided with our electronic works, and also our TibetDoc software which can also be used to read the works, has the feature that you can click on a Tibetan word and immediately look it up in one of our dictionaries. The electronic works can thus be used in conjunction with our dictionaries as a way of reading and translating and generally assisting with the understanding of the texts.

A second important point is that our TibetDoc wordprocessing software can be used to make pecha from the Tibetan texts. Simply copy and paste a text from the Reader into TibetDoc, press a button, and the whole text will appear in proper, pecha format. This can then be printed, etc. In this way, our electronic texts actually become a central resource which can then be used for electronic study or as a source for making pecha or books of the same.

A third important point is that TibetD Reader and TibetDoc can be used as the basis for a powerful reference library using our various electronic works.

Dictionaries
We have a number of dictionaries and lexical works available. Click here to go to our dictionaries page.

Tibetan Texts
We have a growing number of Tibetan texts in electronic editions, including essential reference works as well as dharma texts. At the moment, we have two selections of texts:
1. available only by purchase either on CD or by immediate download
2. available free by download from this site.

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