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The Tibetan Library Dictionary brings together 1,229,242 entries from 64 authoritative sources into a single, free, searchable database. Whether you're a student learning Tibetan, a scholar researching Buddhist philosophy, a translator working on sacred texts, or simply curious about Tibetan words, this dictionary provides instant access to the combined knowledge of the world's leading Tibetan lexicographic works.
Type directly in Tibetan script (བོད་ཡིག), use Wylie (the standard way to type Tibetan with a Latin keyboard — e.g., "bkra shis" for བཀྲ་ཤིས།), or just search in English. All 64 dictionaries are searched at once, and results are organized by source so you can compare definitions.
This dictionary combines major English-Tibetan lexicons like the Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary (73,730 entries), the historic Jäschke Dictionary from 1881 (154,112 entries), the Ives Waldo Dictionary (120,920 entries), and Jeffrey Hopkins' Buddhist terminology work (17,955 entries). It also includes the 84000 Translation Project glossaries (51,594 entries), the classical Tshig Mdzod Chen Mo (ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ) (51,030 entries), the Dungkar Encyclopedia (དུང་དཀར) (13,310 entries), and Sanskrit-Tibetan sources like the Mahāvyutpatti and Negi Sanskrit Dictionary (79,293 entries).
Especially strong in Buddhist philosophical terminology — covering all major traditions and schools of thought. Includes specialized sources for understanding Buddhist texts in their original Tibetan, with over 20,000 entries dedicated to philosophical and religious vocabulary alone.
Most online Tibetan dictionaries draw from a single source — typically Rangjung Yeshe or Monlam alone. The Tibetan Library Dictionary is unique in unifying 64 different sources into one searchable interface. With over 1.2 million entries spanning classical Tibetan, colloquial Tibetan, Buddhist terminology, medical terminology, and modern vocabulary, no other publicly accessible Tibetan dictionary comes close in scope or depth.