Tibetan Experts Urge Int'l Academic Exchanges on Tibetan IssuesA visiting group of Tibetan researchers from China said Friday in Bonn that studies on Tibetan issues should be modernized and that they were ready for academic exchanges with their foreign counterparts on these issues.Chief of the Tibetan Institute of Social Studies Galsang Gyaltsen, who headed the experts' delegation from Tibet, China, told a seminar at Bonn University that his delegation would like to exchange views with their counterparts in foreign countries on the latest achievements made in Tibetan studies. Galsang Gyaltsen noted the research institutes in China, including the Tibetan Institute of Social Studies, the Tibetan University, and the Research Center for Tibetan Issues, have already begun academic cooperation with universities in Norway, Austria, and the United States. The delegation accepted the request for bilateral academic exchanges made by Professor Hans Roth, leader of the seminar and an expert on Tibetan history. Briefing German researchers about plans to collect Tibetan relics scattered in society at large, Galsang Gyaltsen said the central government in Beijing had allocated a total of 300 million yuan (36 million U.S. dollars) to the local government of the Autonomous Region to sponsor a program for collecting and protecting Tibetan relics. |
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