ཤེས་ཡོན།
གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སྦྱར་པང་།
International Student Cell
CIHTS is the only Institute which has the history of an active thirty years’ international exchange programme. With the inspiration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, renowned Buddhist scholars like Prof. Jay Garfield, Prof. Robert Thurman, etc. have led the exchange programmes between CIHTS and the Five College Consortium, Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1996, this programme broadened to include the University of Tasmania and Deakin University, Australia. Other international programmes are also operating with Orient Foundation for Art and Culture, England; Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Russia; Wonk Wang Digital University, South Korea; Labsum Buddhist College Association of Taiwan; International Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Austria and Emory University, US. An annual one-month intensive course on Buddhism and Tibetan studies is organized on the behalf of the Institute for the international students in the winter session.
An ambitious translation project in collaboration with Bihar Govt. and Patna Museum has been an outstanding venture so far. This project is meant for translating into Hindi from Tibetan, the entire collection that Mahapandita Rahul Sankratayan brought from Tibet. This collection runs into tens of thousands of texts and includes the corpus of Kangyur and Tengyur as well as many collected works of Tibetan masters.
Objectives
- Exchange of students
- Exchange of faculties and research scholars
- Exchange of publications
- Joint research
- Joint training programs/workshops/conferences/seminars
- Cataloguing, Digitization and Publication of rare Sanskrit and Tibetan manuscripts
Areas of study
- Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and spirituality
- Tibetan language and literature
- Tibetan and Buddhist history
- Sowa-Rigpa (Tibetan medical system)
- Bhot Jyotish (Tibetan astronomy)
- Tibetan traditional fine arts (Thangka painting and woodcraft)
- University of Tasmania, Austria: School of Philosophy
- Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies (IMBT) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryat, Russian Federation.
- International Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (IIHTS-Tibet Center), Huttenberg, Austria.
- University of Pune, Pune.
- Emory University, Atlanta, USA
- Wonkwang Digital University, Iksan City, Republic of Korea.
- Indira Gandhi Natioinal Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi.
- Lab Sum Buddhist College Association of the Republic of China, Taiwan.
- Patna Museum, Patna, Bihar.
