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Institute for Village Studies

Would you like to help create an educational center that enables future college students to learn through exploration and contribution?

Would you like to earn a quarter, a semester or more of credit while researching and exploring in the Himalayas, northern India and Thailand?

The Institute for Village Studies has established a study center in Dharamsala, India, the home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We are working with the exiled Tibetans community and teaching English to village children, Tibetan Buddhist monks, and refugees. "We also have a center in a Thai village, Tham Phra That, located in beautiful Erawan National Park, and in the summer of 2002 we will begin work on a center in Ladakh, India. We have established a regional network of educators, people, places, and experiences that are rich resources for our American students.

As we explore, we can support your research into the following fields:

  • Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and indigenous religion
  • Tibetan culture
  • Hill tribe culture
  • Sustainable development
  • Regional politics
  • Education
  • Asian art
  • History
  • Ecology

If you have any questions, For more information, contact director@villagestudies.org or hope527@hotmail.com

 

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide learning experiences through service, exploration and study in developing nations. Our purpose is twofold:

first to provide contracting educational groups with opportunities for independent research, studies in a variety of disciplines, and service in villages;

secondly, to support community development opportunities defined by host villages.

The meeting of tradition and modernity in the Himalayas is more opportunity than crisis, more dance than death march; in short, a process that beckons us for involvement.