Welcome to ETSI: Your Premier E-Learning Platform for Science Courses in Tibetan

The ETSI curriculum includes coursework in Math, Physics, Biology, and Neuroscience. These areas were chosen to focus on subjects where monastics would be most likely to have interest and impact. The curriculum was originally implemented through distance learning and summer intensive teaching sessions with visiting faculty. The distance-learning component consists of specialized bilingual textbooks, called primers, and video lectures. With the completion of the implementation phase, the curriculum is now taught by the participating monasteries’ local science teachers and through this online learning platform. ETSI has a massive collection of bilingual science material, which makes the ETSI curriculum accessible to other countries of the Himalayan region and other traditionally Buddhist countries and any interested English-speaking parties.

The curriculum for each discipline was planned according to a progressive series of learning objectives. Materials were progressively refined, and new materials developed as the curriculum unfolded over the six years.  Faculty who traveled to India to teach these summer intensive courses helped develop lecture slides, in-class experiments, discussion topics, and other related course planning and refinement. These materials have been adapted for online study and can be found throughout the courses here.