略论藏学学科的特点

藏学是指专门研究藏族的精神文化和物质文化的一门学科,它具有单一民族的综合性学科特点。藏学在其发展历程中形成了传统藏学学科体系和现代藏学学科体系。传统藏学学科只限于“大小五明”、地理、历史和传记等范畴,而现代藏学已形成了多学科、深层次、广领域的世界性学科。近30年来,藏学学科得到了空前的发展,并形成自己的学科特点和研究方法,但是,藏学作为一门学科,尚待建立合理的学科体系、科学的理论定式、统一的分类界限和规范的名称术语。

On the Subject characteristics of Tibetan Studies

Tibetan studies is a subject that studies the social history, politics, economy, culture and religion of Tibet. It has the characteristics of comprehensive discipline to a single nationality. In the procedure of development of tibetan studies, two systems were formed: traditional and modern systems. Traditional Tibetan studies focus on the geography, history and biography and so on while modern Tibetan studies have been developed to a worldwide subject with multi-discipline. In the recent 30 years, Tibetan studies developed very fast and have their own characteristics and research methods. However, there is still some work need to be done, such as establishing a more rationale subject system, scientific theoretical system, a unified category definition and normal terms.