Lahm, a Tibetan student of Tibet University, bought her parents a mobile phone equipped with Tibetan language software.

"My parents can send messages to me in Tibetan language when they miss me," said Lahm delightedly.

Nowadays, mobile phones installed with Tibetan language software were widespread in the markets, which met the demands of most Tibetan people.

"My parents don't know Chinese pinyin, and the mobile phone with Tibetan input method brings them great convenience," Lahm added.

Ngodrup, vice president of Tibet University, said Gangjie Tibetan input method researched by Tibetan Information Technology Research Center of Tibet University has greatly enhanced the popularity of mobile phones among Tibetan people. Statistics show that more than 70% Tibetan people use the Gangjie Tibetan input method in their mobile phones.

Besides, since some Tibetan people were illiterates who could only speak Tibetan language, Tibet University has been developing the Tibetan speech recognition system.

"People who cannot write the Tibetan words can pronounce the text by means of the speech recognition system and send voice messages," said Ngodrup.

With the development of Tibetan software, many ancient documents and books in Tibetan language have gotten well protected on account of the digitization technology.

In the Sera Monastery of Lhasa, over ten working staffs who have rich Tibetan knowledge have carried out the digital acquisition of the ancient handwritten books of Tibetan Buddhism which were in danger of dying out.

Gyacai Qiangba, a monk of Sera Monastery, said, "We are gratified that the technology and Tibetan language software help keep the damaged Buddhism books."

At present, the Tibetan Information Technology Research Center of Tibet University is seeking cooperation with inland scientific and technical companies to research the Tibetan, Chinese and English trilingual intelligent teaching system to arouse students' interest in learning Tibetan language.

By virtue of informatization, Tibetan language is preserved and developed in a better way.