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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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