A Quick Overview of the 12th IATS Seminar
One hundred and ninety-five institutions from 25 nations attended 51 panels on Tibetan studies in five days spent on the UBC campus outside of Vancouver, Canada.
Almost every country with a university program devoted to Tibetan studies in some form or another was represented at this year’s conference in Vancouver: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Nepal, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA were all represented. The bulk of participants seemed to be from the US, followed by England, France, and Germany. A significant contingent of independent scholars, NGOs, and major libraries were also present.
