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Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

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'''Alak Zenkar Rinpoche''' ([[a lags gzan dkar rin po che]])
===Brief bio===

Alak Zenkar Rinpoche is great Nyingmapa scholar from Eastern Tibet who is said to be an emanation of [[Do Khyentse]] and at present lives in New York. [AJP] from The Great Image ISBN 1-59030-069-6

He is the premier Tibetan lexicographer and scholar Tudeng Nima (Alak Zenkar) ...

Tudeng Nima (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was recognized as the reincarnation of Zenkar Rinpoche of [[Amdo]] in 1946. He was born in the 1943 in the Sichuan Province of the People’s Republic of China.

Presently, he is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the East Asian Institute and is the Director and Founder of the [[Project for Searching and Making Available Rare Texts]] in Chengdu China. He is also the main editor and Co-Founder of the [[Project for the Compedium Dictionary of Tibetan Buddhist Terminology of Eight Different Schools]], jointly with the [[Nitartha Organization]] of Vancouver, BC , Canada.

===Literary Works===
==In Tibetan==
* A Two volume history of the Nyingma lineage
* [[bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo]]; Three volume Tibetan-Tibetan-Chinese dictionary
* [[An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary]] = bod dbyin tshig mdzod chen mo : A Revised Version of [[bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo]] : Volume One, Ka - Nya ; [[Tadeusz Skorupski]] red., [[Gyurme Dorje]] and Tudeng Nima overs. Beijing/London: The nationalities Publishing House & The School of Oriental and African Studies, 2001.

==In English==
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id32.html A Brief Presentation of the Nine Yanas]

===Main Teachers===
*[[Khenpo Thubten Nyendrak]]
*[[Sixth Dzogchen Rinpoche Jikdral Changchub Dorje]]
*[[Khenpo Yönten Gönpo]]
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Norbu]]
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro]]
*[[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]

===Main Students===
*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>

===Main Lineages===
*[[Longchen Nyingthig]]<br>

===Alternate Names & Spellings===
*[[Thubten Nyima]]
*[[Tudeng Nima]]<br>

===Other Reference Sources===
*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>

===Internal Links===
*Add double-brackets "[[ ]]" around any relevant word or phrase and it will create a new page for that term or link to an already existing page

===External Links===
*[http://www.tbrc.org/cgi-bin/tbrcdatx?do=so&resource=P2362 TBRC link]
* Alak Zenkar's Biog page at [http://tbrc.org/about/bio.php?bio_str=tnr TBRC]

[[Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers]]
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]]

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Keith Dowman

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==Short description==

===Main teachers===

===Published Works===

===Active Projects===

===Unpublished Works (completed)===

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===External Links===
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Tibetan Encoding Standards

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The Tibetan encoding systems are needed for writing Tibetan fonts on a computer -- or long time ago on a typewriter. The future for Tibetan encoding is Unicode, but until then there's a need for various encoding systems.

The most classical one is [[Wylie Encoding]], created by Professor Wylie. This is used in Tibetan books and similar places for encoding Tibetan words using plain ASCII. As an example, dharma spelled out in Wylie is <code>chos</code>.

A variation of this is [[ACIP Encoding]] that introduced a standard for Sanskrit Tibetan letters.

Another encoding scheme is the [[THDL Extended Wylie]] from [[THDL]].

Various Tibetan fonts use different encoding schemes with multiple characters to represent Tibetan letters. These are not interchangeable, if you use for example [[TCC]] fonts you can't switch to [[Nitartha-Sambhota]] fonts, and vice versa.

Long term Unicode Tibetan will become the general standard for Tibetan letters, but this has not yet happened due to lack of good Unicode Tibetan font sets. The Tibetan Code Block Chart is downloadable from the Unicode consortium [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0F00.pdf here]

Note that the encoding schemes are different from the pronunciation rules. There are very few standards concerning how to spell out pronunciation, of which the [[ACIP Standards for Simplified Tibetan]] is one standard of many.

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