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Tibet University's First Woman Professor
When the graduates from the 2001 grade presented their tutor with
a hadha with their signatories, they were not only expressing gratitude
to their tutor but to the first woman professor at the Tibet University.
Qangngoiba Ceyang, the first woman to have been conferred with
a professorial title at the university, has much more graduates
from her classroom in the 26 years when she has been teaching at
the university.
First a translator from Tibetan into Chinese and vice versa,
Qangngoiba Ceyang later chose to teach Tibetan history at the university.
Thanks to her efforts and hard work, the professor has become a
Tibetology expert at both home and abroad, with her writings on
the history of Tibet and on the functions of various dalai lamas.
Ceyang's theses on Tibetan women throughout history have been
presented at the seventh, eighth and ninth international Tibetology
seminar held Austria, the United States and the Netherlands respectively.
Born into a noble family of old Tibet, Ceyang has been trying
hard to incorporate what she has learned from her parents and her
grandparents into her teaching works at the university.
When asked what she likes most, the first woman professor at
the Tibet University said: "Making friends with all types of
people."
But the 47-year-old mother of two said that one has to be honest
to be a friend in the first place.
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