The Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS) (Tibetan: ཝ་ཎ་མཐོ་སློབ, Wylie: wa Na mtho slob), originally called Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), is a university institute founded in Sarnath,Varanasi, India in 1967, as an autonomous organization under Union Ministry of Culture. The CIHTS was founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, with the aim of educating the youths ofTibet in exile in Dharamsala and the Himalayan border students, as well as with the aim of retranslating into Sanskrit and translating into Hindi and other modern Indian languages lost Indo-Buddhist Sanskrit texts that now exist only in Tibetan.
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