To promote the development of China's Tibetan study,
China's related institutions and their scholars have
continued to conduct academic exchanges of all forms.
Academic conferences on Tibetan study are held annually, as
are many lectures on special topics, symposiums and classes
for advanced studies. Some institutions will also send
visiting scholars to related schools in other cities for
joint study on important research
projects.
Since 1980 , exchanges between China
and foreign Tibetan study circles have also become more
active. In almost every international academic conference on
Tibetan study held in a foreign country, Chinese scholars
will be seen; also, Chinese Tibetan study scholars are often
invited abroad to give lectures and conduct cooperative
research. Meanwhile, more and more foreign scholars are
visiting China to take part in academic activities of all
kinds. After its establishment, the Center for Tibetan Study
of China itself received scholars from foreign countries and
regions of Hong Kong and Macao numbering several hundred
people. There is also a large number of foreign students who
come to China to study Tibetology. In recent years, China
has frequently organized international academic conferences
on Tibetan study in Beijing and Lhasa. Scholars from
Britain, France, Japan, India, Mongolia, Czechoslovak the
former Soviet Union, as well as regions of Taiwan and Hong
Kong, have been invited to these conferences. Meantime, the
works of some foreign scholars have also been translated
into Chinese and published. Some of China's research
institutions have also signed agreements of cooperation with
foreign research organizations, All these activities have
enhanced understanding and friendship between China and
Foreign Tibetan study circles. They play a very positive
role in promoting the development of international Tibet
study. Also, because of China's opening up policy, the
academic exchanges between China and foreign Tibetan study
circles are expected to become even broader and smoother in
the future.
As I end this article, l am happy
to report that under the joint efforts of concerned units,
China will soon publish the Catalogue of Chinese
Publications on Tibetan Study. This large reference work
will be published in Tibetan, Chinese and English. It will
provide fruits of China's complete and systematic
information reflecting the Tibetan study circle in the years
after the founding of new China. As a result of this book,
readers will be deeply impressed by new china' s efforts and
successes in protecting the historical and cultural heritage
of the Tibetan nationality, as well as in developing Tibet's
brilliant traditional culture, and in promoting development
of Tibetan study. For myself, 1 hope it will also remedy
possible omissions and errors in this article.
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