Talk:Key Monastery

The correct name?
I think it should probably be Ki - that seemed to be how it was generally referred to in the region, and is by far the most popular term on google:

"ki monastery" spiti - 1980 hits on google

"kee monastery" spiti - 896 hits on google

"kye monastery" spiti - 759 hits on google

"key monastery" spiti - 574 hits on google

Tomtefarbror (talk) 11:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi! Thanks for bringing this up. I was travelling there a few years ago and both English spellings were used. "Key" was very common and used on signs at the monastery itself, though other places had the form "Ki". I will add a photo of the dedication stone for a new Prayer Hall which uses the form "Key Monastery" to the article. I think we should retain things as they are now with redirects from Ki Monastery. Hope this is satisfactory. John Hill (talk) 11:17, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds fine - as long as all the variants are listed and redirected. Thanks for the quick reply. Tomtefarbror (talk) 11:25, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi! I think I'm joining this discussion a 'little' late! but better late than never. Please refer to Official Website of Lahaul-Spiti District Administartion. Here the name is mentioned as KYE. So, In my view, official name should be primarily used.--Manoj Khurana (talk) 05:33, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Manoj Khurana. Thanks for your comment. I have been prompted by you to consider the subject again and then noticed we don't have the name of the monastery either in Tibetan or any of the other local languages. Presumably the forms in the English alphabet just represent different attempts to Anglicize a foreign name. I have just added a note pointing out that the locals pronounce the name like 'key' in English. I don't know how to decide whether one should accept the Lahaul-Spiti District Administration's use as "official" rather than the form used on the signs at the monastery and by the Dalai Lama's office. Many Anglicized names in India are spelled in a number of different ways - especially for smaller places - sometimes differing from one government department to another. It does not mean one is correct and the others are wrong. To my mind it does not matter so much which one of these Anglicized variants is used in the title of the article, so long as there are proper redirects from other ways of spelling the name in Roman characters. But that is just my opinion. It would be very good, though, if we could find the Tibetan and/or Ladakhi, and other forms of the name from other languages such as Hindi. Cheers, John Hill (talk) 06:36, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * While I agree that there can be more than one correct way to transliterate into the Latin script, the approach that's been taken here is to use an English word that sounds the same. This is an extremely unmethodical way of doing things, and as such makes the pronunciation unclear. (On seeing it for the first time I would expect it has a diphthong) While I don't doubt that this spelling is used on some signs or in other official contexts, it is not the only official spelling. it is also my memory that "Ki" was the most commonly used spelling. As per above, "Key" is the *least* common spelling of google hits. I would like to change the article name to "Ki Monastery". As that spelling is both more common, it follows transliteration conventions more consistently. --Keithonearth (talk) 18:59, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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