The 2008 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies is officially launched in the Beijing Tibetology Research Center on October 14th. More than 220 Tibetologists, experts and scholars, including 16 foreign experts from Japanese, India, Russia, Australia, England, America, France, Germany, Hungary, Canada, Austria, Switzerland and other countries, and 11 experts from Hongkong and Taiwan of China, attend the seminar.