Sanskrit & Tibetan

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kalden yungdrung
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Sanskrit & Tibetan

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Tashi delek DWS members,


Om Ma Ni Pe Me Hung in Tibetan and Sanskrit have resemblances .
Tibetan script was based on Sanskrit, many agree to this.
We also know the Zhang Zhung script which was once used in Tibet.

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Re: Sanskrit & Tibetan

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Sanskrit is written with many different scripts, the script that You have there is called Devanagari.
An older indian alphabet is called Brahmi, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/brahmi.htm#modern
svaha
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
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