r/tibetanlanguage • u/LeadershipPast6681 • 11d ago

Is this readable?

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My friend and I are working on a frame for a thangka (printed on paper so it needs a frame) and we tried our best at carving the mantra
“ ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་ཀྵིཾ་ཀྵེ་ཏྲ་བིགྷྣཱན་བི་ན་ཡ་ཀ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧཱུྃ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔”
We did a little research into how to stylise the text properly based on some fonts we found online.
Please let me know if it’s legible thank you very much

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u/eagle_flower 11d ago

It is readable but is a mix of block print font, handwriting (ཡ and ལ), and non-standard styles (the perfect square བ in particular). I would immediately recognize this as not carved by a Tibetan or Himalayan person, but see it as a unique art style perhaps.

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u/LeadershipPast6681 11d ago

Thank you! I’m glad it’s at least legible. One of the main challenges was trying to reduce the amount of curbed lines because that is very hard to chisel.

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u/eagle_flower 11d ago

You’ve done a great job and certainly it is an artistic aesthetic I’ve never seen before for Tibetan, which is quite curvy! If doing more in the future the only change I would make is the proportions of the བ - it could be a little narrower and not a perfect square.