Tibetan Alphabet

According to Bon history, the original Tibetan alphabet was copied from the ancient Zhang-Zhung alphabet before the reign of the second Tibetan king, Mukri Tsedpo. Later, in the 7th Century AD, Songsten Gampo, the 33rd king of the Yarlung Dynasty of southern Tibet and the first Emperor of Tibet, sent Thonmi Sambhota, one of his ministers, to India to gather information on Indian Buddhism. The minister then reputedly devised a new script for Tibetan based on the Devanagari model and also wrote a grammar of Tibetan based on Zhang-zhung grammars. Here is an example of Zhang-Zhung text, the words "Yungdrung Bon", followed by the same text in the newer Tibetan script that is better known by the world: Throughout the centuries, Tibetan has been written using different types of scripts. 

Two of those scripts, U-chen and U-me are the most common. U-chen is the script you see on this site. It has been used for centuries to print religious books and today it is used for books, newspapers and other media. U-me is more of a handwriting script, although it is sometimes used in Books. Below is a guide on how to draw the U-chen script. Horizontal lines are drawn from left to right and vertical lines from the top down. The letters should align with the top line, thus the first line you draw is the base line.