Central University for Tibetan Studies

The valuable tuition for Tibetan stories, originally referred to as principal Institute of better Tibetan stories (CIHTS), is a school institute established in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967, as an self sustaining supplier under Union Ministry of tradition.The CIHTS was founded by using Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai of Lama, with the goal of instructing the tibetan youths in exile and Himalayan border students.In the early 1970s the government of India reviewed the development of the institute and determined to accord it a popularity of an autonomous physique underneath the division of culture, Ministry of schooling, government of India in 1977 with 100% monetary support from the Indian govt.
The institute incessantly advanced and the Indian executive declared it a Deemed college on 5 April 1988. Previously headed through the like of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, Prof. Samdong Rinpoche ,and Prof. Ngawang Samten, additionally a former alumni, the institute is currently headed by means of Prof. Lobsang Norbu Shastri.Assisted via college contributors, with the goal of accomplishing excellence in the field of Tibetology, Buddhology.Students from Nepal include scholars, from Sherpas, Lamas and many more from the bordering regions of Mustang and Dolpo. Rather than these pupils additionally come from Bhutan and Mongolia.
The institute was officially declared as a tuition and the inauguration was made by using His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. Now the title of the institution is principal institution of Tibetan studies.