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Fred Coulson’s blog has a calculator that will convert your Tibetan year into a Western equivalent. Provide the animal, element, and rab byung and you might get something useful: http://phlonx.com/resources/tibetan calendar/
For more on the Tibetan Calendar: http://www.nitartha.org/calendar overview.html
In case you were unaware, the newly updated version of the Times New Roman font now includes diacritics from the Latin Extended Additional character area, which includes dots above and below letters and other key characters used for representing Sanskrit and other languages used in Buddhist studies. If you are a Tsadra Fellow and you don’t have access to the new version of the font, or are not sure where to get it, let me know and I’ll get it to you ASAP. Just email: Marcus@tsadra.org
“Out of land of snows comes a snow-white digital electronic pocket gadget, produced by a Lhasa-based Tibetan enterprise Tibet Luozang Digital Science & Technology Ltd.
The handheld device features an impressive array of edutainment functions: 34 dictionaries (Tibetan, Chinese, T-C, C-T, T-C-English); PDA (Palm Digital Assistant) application; database of language, cultural and historical entries in Tibetan and Chinese; trilingual WordPad; MP3 player, with USB interface with personal computer; and games…” (Read the article here)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]