Art & Museums

1. འདིར་པར་རྒྱབ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Dir par gyap chok gam?

   Is photography allowed here?

   Usage

   Used to ask whether photography is permitted in a museum or sacred site

   Grammar Note

   "Gam" is a question particle used in polite inquiries

2. ལག་རྩལ་པ་དེ་སུ་རེད།

   Lak tsel pa de su re?

   Who is the artist?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the creator of an artwork

   Grammar Note

   "Su" is the Tibetan interrogative pronoun for "who", often placed near the end

3. ལག་རྩལ་འདི་ལ་མིང་ག་རེ་ཡིན།

   Lak tsel di la ming ga re yin?

   What is this work called?

   Usage

   Used to ask for the title of an artwork

   Grammar Note

   "Ga re yin?" means "What is it?" in Tibetan

4. གཏེར་ཁང་འདི་ལོ་ག་ཚོད་ལ་བཞེངས་པ་ཡིན།

   Ter khang di lo ga tsö la zheng pa yin?

   When was this museum built?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the construction date of a museum

   Grammar Note

   "Ter khang" literally means "treasure house" and refers to museums

5. སྒྲ་ཐོས་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Dra tö tri yik yö dam?

   Do you have an audio guide?

   Usage

   Used to ask about audio guide availability

   Grammar Note

   "Yö dam?" is a polite way to ask "Is there ~?" in Tibetan. "Audio" is སྒྲ་ཐོས; སྒྲ་སྒྱུར is a different word meaning "translation"

6. དྲན་རྟེན་ཚོང་ཁང་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Dren ten tsong khang gang du yö?

   Where is the gift shop?

   Usage

   Used to locate the gift shop

   Grammar Note

   "Gang du yö?" means "Where is it?" in Tibetan

7. ལག་རྩལ་གི་པར་ལོག་ཞིག་ཉོ་འདོད་ཡོད།

   Lak tsel gi par lok zhik nyo dö yö.

   I'd like to buy a print of this artwork.

   Usage

   Used when wanting to purchase a print of an artwork

   Grammar Note

   "Dö yö" expresses desire or wish in Tibetan

8. ཁྲིད་མི་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ལམ་སྟོན་ཡོད་དམ།

   Tri mi dang nyam du lam tön yö dam?

   Is there a guided tour?

   Usage

   Used to ask if a guided tour is available

   Grammar Note

   "Dam" is a polite question particle used in formal contexts

9. གཏེར་ཁང་ཁ་ཕྱེ་བའི་དུས་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Ter khang kha che we dü tsö ga tsö yin?

   What are the museum's opening hours?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the museum's operating hours

   Grammar Note

   "Kha che" literally "opens the mouth" — used idiomatically for "opening"

10. རི་མོ་འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས་པོ་ཡིན།

    Ri mo di shin tu dze po yin.

    This painting is beautiful.

    Usage

    Used to express admiration for a painting or artwork

    Grammar Note

    "Shin tu" is an intensifier meaning "very" or "extremely"

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