(XINHUA)

Principal Zhukang Tubdain Kaizhub (right) confers a graduate diploma to a student at the Tibet Buddhist Theological Institute in the township of Nyetang, Quxu County in Tibet Autonomous Region, on July 15.

The first batch of 150 students came from 128 monasteries in Tibet. They began their studies in October 2011 when the institute opened.

The institute is Tibet's only regional-level Buddhist theological academy.