The various religious organizations in Tibet independently organize religious activities. The Tibetan Branch of the Chinese Buddhists Association has founded the Academy of Tibetan Buddhism and started sutra study classes in monasteries of the various sects. Each year it recommends a certain number of Living Buddhas and student monks for further study at the China Tibetan Language Institute of Buddhism in Beijing. In 1984, the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region presented the Lhasa edition of the Tibetan language Buddhist classic Gangyur to the Tibetan Buddhists Association and opened the Lhasa Sutra Printing House. The Gangyur printed by the printing house are supplied to Buddhist monasteries using the Tibetan language inside and outside of Tibet. In 1990 the Tibetan Buddhists Association began to cut the printing plates for the Lhasa edition of the Dangyur, another Tibetan language Buddhist classic, in Muru Monastery in Lhasa, a project started but not completed by the 13th Dalai Lama. In 1985 the Tibetan Buddhists Association started publishing the magazine Buddhism in Tibet. Currently, there are more than 46,380 monks and nuns in Tibet. Several hundred religious figures have been elected to serve as deputies to people's congresses at various levels, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference committees at various levels, to the Tibetan Buddhists Association Council and for governmental posts. Delegations from Buddhist organizations and religious figures in Tibet have frequently visited foreign countries for on-the-spot investigations or academic exchange. Tibet has also played host to groups and individuals from dozens of countries who came in pilgrimage, as sight seers or to conduct their own investigations.