Developer & Cultural Technologist
Building technology that preserves heritage and empowers communities
རིག་གཞུང་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ དང་མི་སྡེར་ནུས་པ་སྦྱིན་པའི་འཕྲུལ་རིག་བཟོ་བ།
Technologie entwickeln, die Kulturerbe bewahrt und Gemeinschaften stärkt
构建保护文化遗产并赋能社区的技术
Thupten Chakrishar creates software, VR experiences, and cultural tools. He co-founded the Himalayan Elders Project and runs GunkTech.
Recent Writing
Introducing LayerType: Free YouTube Thumbnails with the Text-Behind Effect
Introducing Lungta Radio
Sargam as a Vocal Diagnostic Tool: An Accidental Discovery
རི་བོ། ཉི་མ། ཆུ་བོ།
LayerType བསྐྱར་བཟོ་བྱས། YouTube མཐེབ་པར་ཡིག་ལུགས་གཅེས་སྐྱོང་བྱེད་སྒོ།
རླུང་རྟ་རླུང་འཕྲིན་འགོ་འཛུགས།
དགེ་བླ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་བཟོས། བོད་ཀྱི་བྱིས་པ་རེར་དགེ་རྒན།
Die Berge, die Sonne und der Fluss
Einführung von LayerType: Kostenlose YouTube-Thumbnails mit Text-Hinter-Effekt
Wir stellen vor: Lungta Radio
Warum wir Genla gebaut haben: Ein Lehrer für jedes tibetische Kind
Selected Projects
Tibetan Calendar
A living astronomical tradition spanning over a millennium. Explore the lunisolar calendar rooted in the Kālacakra Tantra with date conversion and educational resources.
Genla
A free, adaptive learning platform for Tibetan children in diaspora—bridging rigorous academics with cultural identity preservation.
Dramnyen Notation
A web-based notation editor for composing traditional Tibetan music with authentic dramnyen (Tibetan lute) sounds.
AetherFrame
Virtual reality experiences designed to foster mindfulness and meditation, bridging ancient contemplative practices with immersive technology.
Himalayan Elders Project
The largest non-profit in North America serving seniors from the Himalayan community, providing social services and community programs since 2012.