At the age of 17, Chen Qingyin and his parents moved to Qinghai province (northwest China).
After ten years of teaching, he decided to change from a physics professor to a tibetologist and got a degree in Tibetan from the Central Institute of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing.
[2][3] Chen Qingying has conducted research on the history, religion and culture of the Tibetan ethnic group at the Central Institute of National Minority Ethnic Groups, the Academy of Social Sciences of Qinghai Province and the China Tibetology Research Center.
[4][5] One of the most important subjects of Chen Qingying's research is Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism and the first Imperial Preceptor of Kublai Khan's Mongolian Empire, referred to by Chinese sources as the "Chinese Yuan Dynasty.
[7] According to Amazon description, his masterpiece The System of the Dalai Lama Reincarnation was written on the basis of historical data and archives.