I recently realized I don't know how to pronounce my Tibetan dharma name.
I pieced this IPA together from the internets. Is it at all accurate?
/món lam tʰáɹ tɕʰĩ/
A rough equivalent easily pronounced by English speakers would be helpful too. Perhaps something like this??
/'mon lam 'tʰaʒ tʃin/ (mon-lahm tazh-cheen)
Thank you for any help!
How to pronounce my name?
How to pronounce my name?
Namu Amida Butsu
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Re: How to pronounce my name?
Hello Duck 
As far as I can tell, this is how your name would be spelled in Tibetan:
སྨོན་ལམ་ མཐར་ཕྱིན་
According to THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter this would be rendered:
mönlam tarchin
Following the guidelines set out in Appendix II of the Manual of Standard Tibetan (Nicholas Tournadre and Sangda Dorje) the IPA rendering would be:
/møn lam tʰaː ʨin/
In either case, the 1st, 3rd and 4th syllables will be high-toned, the 2nd will be low-toned. Due to the final 'n' there will be some nasalization of the vowels of the 1st and 4th syllables, with the 'n' only lightly pronounced.
As far as I can tell, this is how your name would be spelled in Tibetan:
སྨོན་ལམ་ མཐར་ཕྱིན་
According to THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter this would be rendered:
mönlam tarchin
Following the guidelines set out in Appendix II of the Manual of Standard Tibetan (Nicholas Tournadre and Sangda Dorje) the IPA rendering would be:
/møn lam tʰaː ʨin/
In either case, the 1st, 3rd and 4th syllables will be high-toned, the 2nd will be low-toned. Due to the final 'n' there will be some nasalization of the vowels of the 1st and 4th syllables, with the 'n' only lightly pronounced.