Central Institute Of Himalayan Culture Studies, Bomdila

About Central Institute Of Himalayan Culture Studies, Bomdila

Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies CIHCS, Dahung, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh was established as an aegis of Buddhist Culture Preservation Society BCP, Bomdila under the Presidentship of H. E. 13th. Tsona Gontse Rinpoche and commenced its first academic session on the 4th August, 2003, and is affiliated to Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, U.P. The Institute has got registered under Society Registration Act 1860 vide registration no. SR/ITA/4650 dated 10-11-2010 Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, and has become an Autonomous Body of the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.

The then Department of Culture, Government of India took the initiative to establish an institute of Himalayan Culture Studies to help the people of the region in preservation and promotion of their cultural identity and the growth of traditional arts, crafts and sciences and other genres of indigenous knowledge. Acting upon this objective, it constituted a Task Force in August, 2000 to formulate a concept note and to chalk out modalities for setting up a Buddhist Institution in Arunachal Pradesh.

Till the time of the constitution of a separate Board of Management of Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies CIHCS and its registration, the Buddhist Cultural Preservation Society BCPS, Bomdila was entrusted to take up the initial work by the then Department of Culture, Govt. of India based on the recommendation of the Task Force.

Consequent upon that, the EFC meeting was held on 8th October 2009 and finally the Union Cabinet accorded approval for the establishment of CIHCS at Dahung in West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh as an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India on May 19th 2010.

CIHCS, Dahung got registered under the Society Registration Act 1860 dated 10-11-2010 Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh with following Objectives:

The mandate of the Society is to undertake Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Doctoral Programmes in Buddhist and Himalayan studies and may also establish and maintain feeder schools.