Key Tibetan Reference Resources (Bad)
Presenting a list of the most important online Tibetan language resources
Tibetan Dictionaries
THL Terms: a comprehensive, historical dictionary of Tibetan words and phrases.
THL Subjects: a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
THL Places: a gazetteer of the world with particular emphasis on Central/South Asia.
སྨོན་ལམ་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།: a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
Steinert Online Tibetan Dictionary and App: allows search of most available dictionaries in a pleasing online format.
GoldenDict: Online and offline Tibetan dictionaries combined.
THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool: a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
THL’s Online Tibetan Transliteration Converter: convert THL Extended Wylie to Unicode Tibetan.
THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter: a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
Dharma Dictionary: Tibetan-English dictionary, dharma glossaries, and resources.
Glossary for Buddhist Studies: a glossary of terms used in Buddhism
Rigpa Shedra: An online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism.
Esukhia: Tibetan Language Learning, Translation, and Research.
Tibetan Translation Tools
Monlam AI (སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས།): a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
Tibetan Text/Speech Converters
Monlam AI (སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས།): Tibetan text to speech; Tibetan speech to text.
Tibetan OCR
Monlam AI (སྨོན་ལམ་རིག་ནུས།): Tibetan optical character recognition (OCR).
Tibetan Texts
Buddhist Digital Resource Center: Digitized, cataloged, and archived over 17 million pages of Buddhist literature
Adarshah: Kangyur, Tengyur, Sungbum, and Yungdrung Bon works.
Asian Legacy Library Portal: Catalogs, scans, input, and translations for Himalaya and Inner Asia, South Asia, and East Asia Collections
Buddhist Canons Research Database: (AIBS and Columbia University) — Bibliographic information and full-text search 5,000 texts
Digital Library of Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA): Digitized collection of 3000+ rare and sacred manuscripts from the LTWA collection
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: Original Sanskrit scriptures, over 600 texts
Dharma Downloads: Text collections, puja texts, audio, teachings
Jangchub Lamrim Texts: Critical editions of all 18 Lamrim texts (5 vols), which His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave his discourse on during the Jangchup Lamrim Teachings.
Lotsawa House: Tibetan texts and translations
Tsadra Foundation Digital Resources: Publications and catalogs
UMA-Tibet: Annotated translations of textbook literature in English and Chinese
The Buddhist Canons Research Database: Kangyur and Tengyur search with links to available recensions in ACIP, TBRC and others.
Adarsha Online: Kangyur & Tengyur Search from Gyalwang Karmapa
Bibliotheca Polyglotta: multilingual presentation of Buddhist literature sentence by sentence
Tibetan Canon Catalogs at UVa’s Tibetan & Himalayan Library.
Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies at University of Vienna: Search titles of Kangyur texts in Tibetan, Sanskrit, or Mongolian.
Buddhist Digital Resource Center: a dictionary of subjects related to Tibet.
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: Sanskrit bibliography and manuscript archive.
Asian Classics Input Project: ACIP Tibetan Digital Text for Kangyur and Tengyur.
Classical Tibetan Knowledge: Archive and Study Resource from Central University of Tibetan Studies.
Munchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek: Scans of Tibetan Texts in Munich.
Tibetan Bookstore: Get Tibetan Texts from Asia.
Tibetbook.net: Another source for Tibetan texts from Asia.
Dharma Downloads: Library of Free Digital Tibetan Texts.
Lotsawa House: Free Translations with Digital Tibetan Texts.
Dharma Cloud: Tibetan E-Book LIbrary.
A Sakya Digital Library: Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, Khenpo Ngawang Jorden, and the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu have created a great resource of Tibetan texts available for free.
Tibetan Newspapers from Anna Saw’s Research: An Overview of Historical Tibetan-language Newspapers.