Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies

25.36°N 83.02°E / 25.36; 83.02 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. 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 .

Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
Former name
Central University for Tibetan Studies
Established1967
ChancellorG. Kishan Reddy
Vice-ChancellorProf. Wangchuk Dorjee Negi
Location
Sarnath, Varanasi
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
AffiliationsACU
Websitewww.cihts.ac.in
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