RANGJUNG YESHE INSTITUTE

Welcome to RYI’s online learning site, which offers the chance to learn Classical Tibetan with experienced RYI teachers, including those who created the courses and those who now moderate the courses during the fall and spring semesters. We are currently offering three courses: The Tibetan Alphabet, Introduction to Classical Tibetan, and Classical Tibetan II. If you’ve just signed up for your course, you can login here.

If this is your first visit to the site and you wish learn more about these courses, please go to http://www.ryi.org/programs/online-learning/himalayan-languages for more information and click the Apply button to sign up for the course.

We hope these courses help you fulfil your desire to read the texts of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition!

Available courses

Classical Tibetan II - Self Study

Category: Language

In Classical Tibetan II, you continue your exploration of the classical Tibetan language and its grammar, and gain experience and confidence reading and understanding texts. The focus of the course is on learning by doing, so the primary means of instruction is through guided readings of Tibetan cla…

Introduction to Classical Tibetan - Self Study

Category: Language

Classical Tibetan II

Category: Language

In Classical Tibetan II, you continue your exploration of the classical Tibetan language and its grammar, and gain experience and confidence reading and understanding texts. The focus of the course is on learning by doing, so the primary means of instruction is through guided readings of Tibetan cla…

Teacher: Lowell Cook

Introduction to Classical Tibetan

Category: Language

Teacher: Lowell Cook

The Tibetan Alphabet

Category: Language

Welcome to The Tibetan Alphabet! By the end of this short, self-paced course, you will be able to read, spell out loud, and transliterate what you would normally encounter in a page of Tibetan text. This course is entirely self-guided. You may work through each of the seven units at your own …