Tibetan Courses and Certifications

Tibetan Grammar

Comprehensive introduction to Tibetan grammar, covering essential concepts and structures through a series of progressive lessons.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tibetan Pronunciation

Improve your Tibetan pronunciation skills through a comprehensive 8-class series, focusing on proper articulation and phonetics to enhance your language proficiency.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Tibetan Alphabet

Master the Tibetan alphabet through comprehensive video lessons covering basic letters, subjoined letters, suffixes, prefixes, and Tibetanized Sanskrit, providing a solid foundation for reading and writing Tibetan.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Basic Tibetan Grammar

Comprehensive introduction to Tibetan language fundamentals, covering essential grammar concepts through structured lessons and practical examples.

• YouTube
• 4 hours 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Learn Tibetan

Explore Tibetan language basics, including greetings, general conversations, and days of the week, through engaging video lessons designed for beginners.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Introduction - Sambhota Tibetan Language Tutorial

Comprehensive Tibetan language tutorial covering alphabet, grammar, vocabulary, and everyday topics. Learn to read, write, and understand Tibetan through 33 structured lessons.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tibetan Language Class - Grade 1

Master reading and writing Tibetan through comprehensive lessons covering syllables, pronunciation, fonts, and dictionary use, enhancing your language skills and cultural understanding.

• YouTube
• 7 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tibetan Language Class - Kindergarten

Develop foundational reading and writing skills in Tibetan through progressive lessons designed for beginners, starting from kindergarten level and advancing through nine stages.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism

16 ratings at edX

Explore an overview of the history and philosophy of Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, featuring the basics of the Buddhist view of reality and its educational principles of sciences, mind and social ethics.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Society for Neuroscience

Convergence of Neuroscience and Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives

Exploring intersections between neuroscience and religious perspectives, focusing on constructive engagement, cross-cultural dialogue, and ethical implications for scientific research and education.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

BIMSA

Predicting the Climate Over the Tibetan Plateau in Decadal Scales

Explore advanced techniques for predicting Tibetan Plateau climate on decadal scales, focusing on global coupled data assimilation and the impact of regional observations on global climate predictions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models of Consciousness Conferences

The Nature and Characteristics of Pure Awareness (Rig Pa) According to the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

Explore the Tibetan Buddhist concept of pure awareness (rig pa) and its distinction from dualistic mind through Great Perfection teachings, examining historical development and modern relevance.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

རིག་གནས་བསྡུ་འཇུག་དང་ཉར་ཚགས་བྱེད་པའི་ཐབས་ལམ་མདོར་བསྡུས། | Methods and Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Tibetan Culture

བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་གནས་ཉར་ཚགས་དང་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱེད་སྟངས་སྐོར་གྱི་ལག་ལེན་ལམ་སྟོན། ཡུལ་དངོས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་དང་བཅར་འདྲི་བྱེད་སྟངས། རྒྱུ་ཆ་ཉར་ཚགས་དང་དཀར་ཆག་འགོད་སྟངས་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྟོན་པ།

• edX
• 11 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU

MITRA - Machine Translation and Language Analysis for Premodern Asian Low Resource Languages

Explore how the Dharmamitra project develops language models for classical Asian languages, offering solutions from basic NLP tasks to advanced translation and chatbot interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World: Lesser Vehicle

23 reviews

Explore diverse Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices, their histories, philosophies, and modern adaptations. Learn traditional techniques and secular contemplations while examining scientific research on meditation's efficacy.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course (Audit)