Turrell V. Wylie's A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription, published in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies in 1959, is the peer-reviewed article that set out the Roman-letter transliteration scheme for Tibetan now universally known as Wylie transliteration. Its authority is definitive and near-total: the scheme it proposed became, and remains, the standard method scholars use to render Tibetan script in Roman letters, a rare case of a single article settling a field-wide convention outright. Cite it as the origin and definition of the transliteration system, which this atlas and the wider field of Tibetan studies both still use.
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Turrell V. Wylie's A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription, published in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies in 1959, the top tier reflecting that the transliteration scheme it proposed became, and remains, the standard method scholars use to render Tibetan script in Roman letters, a rare case of a single peer reviewed article settling a field-wide convention outright. NotesThe article that set out the transliteration scheme now called Wylie.
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AuthorTurrell V. Wylie
PublisherHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Publication Year1959
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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