Dorje Tseten

Dorje Tseten (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་བརྟན་, Wylie: rdo rje tshe brtan, ZYPY: Doje Cedain), also Duojie Caidan (多傑才旦); November 1926, Huangzhong - July 6, 2013, Beijing) is a scholar, historian and Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity.

[1][2] He was chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) before becoming the first director of the China Tibetology Research Center.

[1] He was one of the few Tibetan communists, a group of scientists and teachers, who were sent to Tibet to extol the benefits of Marxism-Leninism.

He was appointed as the director of China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, and he remained in this position until 2000.

He reported that in a 1982 pilot project in three high schools in Lhasa, Gyantse, and Lhokha to compare the respective merits of Tibetan vs Han, classes taught in Tibetan at Gyantsé averaged twice as many exam marks as the classes taught in Han.