四川大学中国藏学研究所是教育部人文社科重点研究基地之一，2000年12月由教育部授牌正式成立。基地现设有三个研究方向：西藏和四省藏区经济社会发展研究、藏族历史与汉藏关系研究、藏族文化遗产保护与研究，另设有涉藏问题研究中心。基地现有专职研究人员21名，其中教授12名、副教授7名、讲师2名，另有行政秘书1名、图书管理员1名、学刊编务1名。另长期聘请有高端外籍教师1名、讲座教授1名、客座教授2名。

基地长期开设有藏语、藏文系列课程，招收藏族史、西藏考古、藏传佛教艺术史、文物学与艺术史、藏族历史经济与社会等研究方向的硕士生、博士生。接收博士后进站研究和访问学者驻所研究。

基地主办有藏学专业学术刊物《藏学学刊》（CSSCI 来源集刊），刊发中英文论文，为半年刊，面向国内外发行。基地拥有独立的藏学人类学考古学图书资料室、网站和在建数据库。

现任所长霍巍教授，四川大学杰出教授；副所长石硕教授，教授（二级），博士生导师。

Founded in December 2000, the Center for Tibetan Studies (CTS) of Sichuan University (SCU) is one of the Key Research Institutes (KRI) of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) in Chinese Universities authorized by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). CTS facilitates academic research in three research fields: contemporary studies of the Tibetan populated regions of China, studies of Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations, and Tibetan archaeology and art.

Over the course of last eighteen years, CTS has developed various teaching programs in the field of Tibetan studies. Tibetan language training (both written and spoken) on different levels have been designed for both undergraduate and graduate students of the university. CTS recruits MA and PhD candidates in the fields of Tibetan history, archaeology of Tibet, Tibetan Buddhist art history, cultural relics and arts, and contemporary Tibetan studies. It welcomes postdoctoral researchers and international and domestic visiting scholars.

CTS has seventeen faculty and three staff members, including eight professors, seven associate professors, two lecturers, an administrative assistant, an assistant editor of the CTS journal, and a librarian. Five internationally prestigious scholars also work at CTS either as visiting scholars or as lecture scholars.

Zangxue xuekan (Journal of Tibetology, JOT) of CTS is a semi-annual journal that publishes articles in both Chinese and English; it is one of the top-ranked journals in ethnic studies on the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI).  

CTS has its own professional library, website, and database.

CTS is currently led by Professors Huo Wei and Shi Shuo. Both Professors Huo and Shi are members of Discipline Review Committee of the Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, and members of the Review Panel of Chinese National Social Science Foundation.