Now open for booking

For those of you who have attended one of Tashi’s beginners Tibetan calligraphy workshops. This follow-up workshop offers a rare opportunity of how to correctly compose the *sub-scribed and super-scripted letters, completing the scriptural repertoire of writing Uchen.

Join Tashi in the conducive atmosphere of Samye Dzong in Brussels:

1st – 2nd of October 2022

You can also catch up in the meantime with Wisdom Academy online tutorials. A short introduction can be viewed and enrol here. This covers the correct order and proportionate construction of the Tibetan alphabet and the four vowel signs.

€130 for the weekend.

To book this workshop, please email directly : secretariat@samye.be

*there are a total of 75 sub-scribed and super-scripted letter combinations which are traditionally organised into eight different groups. The illustration poster above shows one combination latter example each of these groups.

Recommended specialised pens can be ordered prior to the workshops form the links provided below:

For the beginner learning the art of Tibetan calligraphy and for the ease of using a cartridge pen, there is the ‘Tibetan set’ of Tak çıkar uçlar – four sizes, 2 to 6 mm, of replacements nibs for the trusty Pilot Parallel pens. also available from Pratik Pen company here.

Pilot Parallel pens are widely available online and at your local stationary/art material suppliers.

For the more accomplished calligrapher, both the Uchen and Umé writing style dip in ink ‘Pratik Pen’ sets are available – please follow the link here.