18K views · 254 reactions | When learning to write Tibetan, the first calligraphy style traditionally mastered is called Tsugring. To practice the characteristic long even vertical down strokes of this 'long tail style' tames the hand. Which then provides a disciplined foundation for all the other Tibetan Umed script styles. tashimannox.com | Tashi Mannox - Tibetan Calligrapher | Facebook

The Tibetan writing system developed to be written with the right-hand. Especially that of the classical Uchen script, which is constructed from top to bottom and from left to right - a logical order to write for the right-handed. It is unforgiving of anybody writing Tibetan with a left-handed habit - when taught in schools and monasteries, simply because it is impractical to successfully achieve the correct marks in the constitution of the letters. Everybody used their right hand. While here in