world studies

	Indo-Tibetica
	Himalayan Studies
	Tibet and the World
	Upper Asia Studies

	Indo-Tibetica
	To compile and collect biographical details and accounts of all Tibetan schools, lamas, mendicants and translators who had travelled to India before 1959.
		To compile and collect biographical and accounts of all Indian Buddhists, Hindu scholars and pandits, physicians and others who had visited any part of Tibet before 1959.
	To publish interesting accounts of such people mentioned above. For example a translation into Tibetan of tucci's Travels of Tibetan Pilgrims in the Swat Valley, 1940, would be of great interest to the Tibetan reader.
		To publish an occasional, bi-lingual journal in Tibetan and Hindi not only to provide accounts of both the Tibetan and Indian reader, but to promote better communication and understanding among Tibetans and Indians, especially the local people of Himachal Pradesh.

	Himalayan Studies
	To collect and bring out hitherto unpublished and rare works by native writers and scholars on the history, racial origins, language and culture of the people of Lemi, Mughum, Mustang, Dolpo, Tsum, Langtang, Khumbu, Yolmo, Walung, Bhutan and other Himalayan areas.
			To compile a record of all lamas, scholars, leaders and important families of all the regions mentioned above.
	NOTE: The volumes of unpublished works on the Himalayan people and culture are already in the possession of the Institute.

	Tibet and the World
	To initiate, guide and assist research programme and the studies on Tibet's relationships with various other countries.
		To compile contemporary information on all friends and supporters of Tibet, in order that contact with them could be strengthened or further developed; and where appropriate seek their advice and cooperation.
	To also initiate a programme to honour outstanding foreign scholars and supporters of Tibet. See AMI's Awards and Honours Scheme.
		NOTE: For most people in the world Tibet still conjures up images of an exotic and distant land with little and no bearing on their personal lives. Few are aware that, in fact, Tibet was known to many countries for centuries and did have degrees of interaction with them. For example, contact between Tibet and Scotland dates back to the 1770's. Knowledge and information about Tibet's contact with various countries would help to promote better and more substantial relationships in many countries all over the world.

	Upper Asia Studies
	To encourage and facilitate research into Tibet's relationships with the various people of "High Asia", the various Mongol and Turkic people in the erstwhile Soviet Union, Mongolia and China.
			To study the historical and current relationship of these peoples to communist China and Taiwan.
	To carry out research and studies into the resurgence of Buddhism among the Mongol people, and the factors and people involved in this new spreading and development of Buddhism in High Asia.