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The LTWA is located in the Central Tibetan Administration complex.
It was established in 1971 as a repository for ancient cultural
objects, books and manuscripts from Tibet.
The Library has eight departments: research and translation;
publications; oral history and film documentation; reference
(reading room); Tibetan studies; Tibetan manuscripts; a museum and a
school for thangka painting and wood-carving. LTWA also has a team
of Tibetan scholars who are engaged in research, translation,
instruction and the publication of books.
Since its founding, the Library has acquired a reputation as an
international centre for Tibetan studies. To date, more than five
thousand scholars and research students from over thirty countries
have benefited from this unique educational institution. LTWA offers
regular classes in Buddhist philosophy and the Tibetan language. A
schedule of courses is available from the Library office. Apart from
books and booklets on diverse aspects of Tibetan culture, the
Library brings out regular publications, among which The Tibet
Journal is pre-eminent. For research scholars and students, the
Library offers hostel accommodation on a first-come-first-served
basis.
www.tibet.com/ltwa
Magazines and Journals
The Tibetan community in Dharamsala publishes a number of magazines
and journals in several languages. The Library publishes The Tibet
Journal, a scholarly and international journal on Tibetan culture.
The monthly Sheja and weekly Tibetan Freedom in the Tibetan language
are published by the Department of Information and International
Relations. This department also publishes Tibetan Bulletin, a
bi-monthly magazine in English, Tibbat Desh, a bi-monthly in Hindi,
and Tibet Bulletin, a bi-monthly in Chinese. Tibetan Youth Congress
brings out Rangzen in both Tibetan and English. The Institute of
Buddhist Dialectics publishes Lhaksam Tsekpa to interpret the broad
issues of western political thought and ideas. The Department of
Religion and Culture publishes Cho-Yang, a glossy magazine on
culture and Buddhism. Amnye Machen Institute publishes yearly Cairn
and Lungta in English. Tibetan Review, an independent monthly
journal in English, is published from Delhi and is read by Tibetans
all over the world. This publication represents an attempt by the
Tibetan community in exile both to interpret the contemporary world
for themselves and to carry the issue of Tibet to the world at
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