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About Maciej St. Ziêba
Expertise
I am native Polish and I used to teach Polish to foreigners. I know (passively of actively) more than 15 other languages - so I can answer many questions concerning Polish grammar, pronounciation, spelling, ethymology and usage - as compared to English, French, German, Russian, Dutch, Esperanto or Norwegian. Also questions concerning other Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, or general linguistics, especially scripts (writing systems and transcriptions) - are welcome.

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Teaching English and French to Poles, Polish to foreigners, teaching Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan to philosophy students.

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Topic: Polish Language

Expert: Maciej St. Ziêba
Date: 1/4/2008
Subject: translate dharma name

Question
Hey Macie,

I recieved a dharma name when i took refuge in the buddha - it's wong-po (i'm pretty sure it's not wAng po). The translation is "powerful activity" and i'm wondering what this name looks like in Tibetan. Where can I find this name written in Tibetan? Thank you in advance!

Answer
Dear Justin,

I am sorry but I think I can't help. My dictionaries list "wang po" (in Wylie transcription written "dbang po" meaning powerful) but no "wong po" ("dbong po" nor plain "wong po" straight). Check http://www.nitartha.org/dictionary_search04.html
or http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/default.asp?col=04&t=diction.htm
for all of them. "Dpong po ri" is the name of "King Gesar's temple" nothing more.

Unfortynately I know no place on the internet which can give you it in Tibetan letters, and I cannot put Tibetan letters into this service.

The first word consists of letters da+ba+nga (written from left to right) the second word consist of letter pa with o superscribed - that is the upper inversed moustache which you can find on the character marked as "o" (the lower part being the same for all vowels has to be replaced wiithe the letter "pa")
(check with http://www.dmes.org/hypertext/tibetan.html )

Or else check many of google entries under search for Tibetan online dictionary - I hav no time checking them all (hint: use these links for more results: http://www.google.pl/search?as_q=Tibetan+online+dictionary&num=100
and http://www.google.pl/search?q=Tibetan+alphabet&num=100 and
http://images.google.pl/images?q=Tibetan+alphabet&num=100&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image... )

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Maciej

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