Overview
The Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS), formerly known as the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), is a Deemed University located in Sarnath, Varanasi, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in 1967 and functions as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
The institute was established by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in association with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. It was set up with the twin aims of providing education to Tibetan youth living in exile and to students from the Himalayan border regions of India, and of undertaking scholarly work on Indo-Buddhist literature.
A core part of the institute's academic mission is the re-translation of original Indo-Buddhist texts. Many of these works, originally composed in Sanskrit, were preserved in Tibetan translation after the decline of Buddhism in India. The institute renders such texts back into Sanskrit, as well as into Hindi and other modern Indian languages, supporting the continuity and accessibility of this textual heritage. The Tibetan name of the institution is ཝ་ཎ་མཐོ་སློབ (Wylie: wa Na mtho slob).
References
Adapted from the English Wikipedia article on the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.