Writing of the Dakinis
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
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You are invited to make a short virtual excursion through this wide range of exciting calligraphy of dakini scripts. The activity and intention of this website exists in order to visualize these symbolic scripts and to open up these treasuries of the artistic gifts to the entire public. To inspire the fascination about forgotten writing systems and to point at the intellect in Tibetan writing systems.
Transcribing and decoding the symbolic scripts allow for the full composition of words and meaning. But the understanding of these texts does not depend on the miracuelous script alone.
Click and enlarge the pictures and see the different scripts. The following pages will offer and demonstrate more details.
The fonts are designed in a freehand calligraphy similar to the art and style used by wood-block carvers doing their work. One has to learn each new style of handwriting. It is useful to have as much text or signs as possible when deciphering the old scripts. Some of these pechas are only a tiny excerpt of the script