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Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS),
Sarnath, Varanasi was established in 1967
at the wishes of His Holiness the 14th Dalai
Lama and India's first Prime Minister, Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru. CIHTS was primarily established
with an ethos to educate the emigre youths
of Tibet and the students of the Indian
Himalayan belt who had lost the opportunity
of going to Tibet for advanced studies and
religious discourses in Buddhism after the
1959 episode.
CIHTS
was operated as an autonomous organisation
under the administrative control of the
Department of Culture, Government of India
with 100% financial support from the Government
of India. After considerable growth of its
infrastructure and academic excellence,
it was declared as "Deemed to be University"
in 1988.
The
objectives of CIHTS are to preserve the
Tibetan Culture and Tradition; to preserve
ancient Indian sciences and literature preserved
in the Tibetan language, but lost its original;
to offer an alternate educational facility
to students of Indian border areas who formerly
availed the opportunity of receiving higher
education in Tibet; and to accomplish gains
of teaching and scope of research in traditional
subjects in a framework of the modern university
system of education with the provision for
award of degrees in Tibetan studies.
Keeping
in view the importance of publishing research
works on Buddhology and Tibetology in accordance
with the objectives of the Institute as
one of the principal means for propagating
and promoting the Buddhist and Tibetan studies,
the Institute introduced its own publications.
Initially CIHTS commenced its publishing
works with two booklets of seminar papers
in 1972 but regular publication work was
started in 1983.
CIHTS
publishes mainly the research materials
of restoration, translation, original writings
and critically edited works in the subject
field dominated by Buddhist and Tibetan
studies. The Publications are brought out
in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tibetan, Pali and English
or in multilingual form, which may consist
of two or more languages as mentioned above.
The
main sources of materials for CIHTS Publications
is the research work of the projects launched
by the Institute itself. But it also accepts
certain similar kind of research works by
eminent scholars. Most of the books published
so far are of having high standard and great
research value for advanced studies in Tibetology
and Buddhology.
At
present, CIHTS is publishing the books under
eight series, and in addition, volumes of
"Dhih": A Rare Buddhist Text Research
Journal, and Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary.
The titles of the series are as under.
- Biblotheca
Indo-Tibetica Series
- The
Dalai Lama Tibeto-Indological Series
- Samyak
Vak Series
- Samyak
Vak Special Series
- Prof.
L M Joshi Commemorative Lecture Series
- The
Rare Buddhist Text Series
- Avalokiteswara
Series
- Miscellaneous
Series
- "Dhih":
A Rare Buddhist Texts Research Journal
- Tibetan-Sanskrit
dictionary
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