ཝ་ཎ་མཐོ་སློབ | |
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Former name | Central University for Tibetan Studies |
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| Established | 1967 |
| Chancellor | Minister of Culture, Government of India |
| Vice-Chancellor | Wangchuk Dorjee Negi |
| Location | , , |
| Affiliations | ACU[1] |
| Website | www |
25°22′N 83°01′E / 25.36°N 83.02°E The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS; Tibetan: ཝ་ཎ་མཐོ་སློབ, Wylie: wa Na mtho slob), formerly called Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS), is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967, as an autonomous organisation under Union Ministry of Culture.[2] The CIHTS was founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, with the aim of educating Tibetan youths in exile and Himalayan border students as well as with the aim of retranslating lost Indo-Buddhist Sanskrit texts that now existed only in Tibetan, into Sanskrit, to Hindi, and other modern Indian languages .[3]
- ^ "Association of Commonwealth Universities Membars-Asia". Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ "Deemed Universities". UGC. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ Department of Culture, India (2002). Indian culture : tradition & continuity (1st ed.). New Delhi: Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. p. 13. ISBN 9788187614081.