Wylie is the name of a system for representing Tibetan letters using the character set of a standard English-language typewriter. With the growing popularity of personal computers several font encoding schemes have arisen that permit the display of native Tibetan script, but there is no single standard and Professor Wylie's system remains, with some modifications, the universal standard for representing Tibetan text in Roman letters.

The specification was originally published as A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription by Turrell Wylie, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 22, 1959, p.261-67. If you or your institution subscribe to JSTOR, you can read this article online

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