AMI Signs Friendship and Cooperation Agreement with Indiana University
August 19, 1999
Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA
From
left to right: Taktser Rinpoche Thubten Jigme Norbu, H.H.the Dalai Lama
and Prof. Elliot Sperling.
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AMI Signs Friendship and Cooperation Agreement with Indiana University August 19, 1999 |
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5:00 p.m. on August 19, 1997, in Bloomington, Indiana, the Tibetan Studies
program of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University
signed an Agreement of Friendship and Cooperation with the Amnye Machen
Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, in the presence of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama and the Dean of International Programs, Patrick O’Meara.
The signing of the agreement capped several days of activities mounted by
the University in order to welcome His Holiness. Taktser Rinpoche Thubten
Jigme Norbu, Indiana University President Myles Brand, and a selected number
of invited dignitaries were also present for the signing. These included
Indiana Lieutenant Governor Joe Kernan, Indiana University Chancellor Herman
Wells, Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis, Bloomington Mayor John
Fernandez, and several University trustees, deans and regional campus leaders. |
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| The agreement provides that both institutions will work to institute exchanges of students and research personnel, cooperative publication activities, and joint conferences. The agreement was signed by Tashi Tsering, representing the Amnye Machen Institute, and Professor Elliot Sperling, representing Indiana University's Tibetan Studies Program. | ||||
| After the signing Professor Sperling paid tribute to AMI’s achievements and presented the Institute with his personal collection of one of Tibet’s oldest newspaper, The Tibet Mirror, founded and edited by the late Rev. G. Tharchin. | ||||
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