Eight descendants of Tibetan medicine were awarded Master or Doctor Degrees of Medicine, the highest degree of Tibetan medicine since Tibet’s peaceful liberation in 1951, in Lhasa on August 26, 2012.

Three heirs including Phurjung Tsering, were awarded doctor degree and the rest of them including Peyang were awarded master degree.

After three-year study and examinations, they have become first Tibetan medicine heirs who possess master or doctor degree of Tibetan clinical medicine. They are also the first batch of heirs awarded degrees.

There have been four batches of 48 heirs finishing their apprenticeship, among whom the first three batches are educated by Tibetan Medicine Hospital and awarded inheritance certificate of TCM.

86-year old Tibetan medicine doctor with his student Dekyi Pedron.

Peyang is awarded degree by her tutor Liang Fanrong.