Tibetan Tattoo Design Sample 1

Tibetan Tattoo Design Sample 2

Tibetan Tattoo Design Sample: Spiral Arrangement

Twirling a piece of text into a spiral (with decreasing font-size etc.) is what many would consider the ultimate challenge in script-design. Incidentally, the ability to do this is not some 21st century luxury - Tibetans used to inscribe their charms in such delightful shapes already thousands of years ago, albeit much more painstakingly, syllable-by-syllable. This sample features a more modern "charm": an introductory clause to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Tibetan Uchen Script, arranged in a spiral.

The large version of the above image is quite impressive and most people would probably consider it more suitable as a wall-hanging than a tattoo. View it here: Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (English source text to be inserted.)
Needless to say, this sort of elaborate design is not cheap: Tibetan glyph-stacking is difficult enough on a horizontal line, and the glyphs tend to "fall apart" when twisted into an unusual shape, requiring much manual retouching. Hence, an image like the two above will cost 10~40EUR, depending on factors such as size, and primarily on how much manual correction is required.
 

 

 

Tibetan Tattoo Design Sample: Personal Name: Christopher

Approximately one-half of the people who approach me for a Tibetan script design primarily wish to have one or more personal names converted into Tibetan script for a name-tattoo. For this reason I now have nearly 100 English, Spanish, German.. names in my archives. Small-size, lower resolution versions of these designs will cost you only a Euro or two, but I do not like to let go of the higher quality images too cheaply because I put considerable effort into these Tibetanised names.

One of the concerns is that the grapheme-clusters in the (non-Indo-European) Tibetan should represent the phonetic structure of the (Indo-European) Western names as faithfully as possible, which is not easy at all; in fact, most transcriptions of Western names that appear on the Web and in print are very poor as most (Tibetan) people do not bother or know how to transcribe them properly. In this respect I try to maintain high standards.

Let me explain what I mean using a concrete example: The name below was transliterated into Tibetan applying more or less the same rules as apply to the transliteration of (Indo-European) Sanskrit into Tibetan. Sanskrit graphemes generally do not represent individual consonants and vowels, such as "r" and "a", but whole syllables, such as "ra". In case a word ends in an "r" sound it is necessary to cancel the inherent "a" using a special symbol called halanta. Thus, to avoid Christopher looking like Kris-toh-feh-rah, halanta is applied to the grapheme representing "ra" so as to cancel the "a" sound. In the image, halanta is the diagonal stroke in the bottom-right corner of the cluster.

2007-2009  Working as Freelance Tibetan Translator and Designer

2005-2006  Worked as Tibetan Language Teacher in UK

2003-2004  e-Commerce (Retail of Tibetan Rugs & Carpets, Arts & Crafts in Japan)

2002   Worked as Tibetan Translator and Interpreter for Tourists in Tibet

1998-2000  Studied Tibetan Language and Translation at various Monasteries in Nepal and India

1995-1997  Studied Tibetan Language at LTWA (Dharamsala)

Keywords: Tibetan Translation, Tibetan Translations, Tibetan Script, Tibetan Translator, English to Tibetan Translation, Tibetan to English Translation, en,eng,ja,jp,jap,bo,tib

チベット語翻訳, チベタン, チベットの言語, 通訳者

བོད་སྐད བོད་ཡིག བསྒྱུར་མཁན སྐད་སྒྱུར སྐད་གཉིས་སྨྲ་བ 

"INNER PEACE AND STRENGTH";
English Phrase Converted into
Tibetan Script Tattoo Design;
Vertical Arrangement

Keywords: Tibetan Translation, Tibetan Translations, Tibetan Script, Tibetan Translator, English to Tibetan Translation, Tibetan to English Translation, en,eng,ja,jp,jap,bo,tib

チベット語翻訳, チベタン, チベットの言語, 通訳者

བོད་སྐད བོད་ཡིག བསྒྱུར་མཁན སྐད་སྒྱུར སྐད་གཉིས་སྨྲ་བ