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PADMA KARPO TRANSLATION COMMITTEE FONTSby Lotsawa Tony DuffThe Tibetan Calligraphic Typeface is the finest in a series of very fine Tibetan typefaces made by the Tibetan Computer Company and used in Padma Karpo Translation Committee language software products. The typeface is a modern style Uchen (seriffed) typeface with particularly authentic features. It is especially suitable for high quality publications on paper. It also renders well on-screen making it very suitable for those who use their computers a lot. The fonts are the work of Lotsawa Tony Duff, founder and director of the Padma Karpo Translation Committee. Lotsawa Tony is an Australian who has been studying and practising Tibetan Buddhism since his arrival in Nepal in 1973. He has studied and practised extensively with three of the four main traditions in Tibetan Buddhism. In the 1970's he was a monk and one of the founders of Chenrezig Institute for Western Culture, under Lama Yeshe and Geshe Lodan. In the 1980's he moved to the U.S.A. to be a student of the incomparable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Tony was well known as a scholar and teacher in that community and remains a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. In the 1990's he moved to Nepal to continue his work as a translator. Working with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, the son of Tulku Ugyen, he established the Drukpa Kagyu Heritage Project and the Padma Karpo Translation Committee. The Drukpa Kagyu Heritage Project was founded to preserve and re-print the works of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage; the project's work was very successful and became a model for nearly every Tibetan text preservation project at the time. The Padma Karpo Translation Committee translates Kagyu and Nyingma materials in general and Tony travels regularly with Tsoknyi Rinpoche and other teachers, translating Dzogchen and other teachings around the world. It has been Tony's vision that the translation committee could produce authentic materials for translating and studying the Tibetan language and provide them together with fine software to make them useful electronically. This CD is one of several which present the results of that vision. Two higher grade fonts are available: 1) Tibetan Calligraphic A better quality typeface than the standard Tibetan Machine typeface that ships with all Padma Karpo Translation Committee products. Ideal for those wanting high quality printing or easier viewing without great expense. 2) Tibetan Classic The highest quality typeface available for the very best in Tibetan publishing. This typeface accurately captures the original style of calligraphy that was used in Tibet for many centuries. For more information about, and downloadable samples of Tibetan Computer Company typefaces and software, see: www.tibet.dk/tcc/typefacesa.htm. For more information on Padma Karpo Translation Committee and Tibetan Computer Company products as well as software support: www.tibet.dk/pktc | |
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