Explore the 25-hectare Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Hue
(Baonghean.vn) - The Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Thua Thien Hue province is one of four university-level educational centers of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, which trains hundreds of Buddhist bachelors each year.
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| The Academy was built in 2015 in Ngu Tay village (An Tay ward, Hue city) on an area of over 25 hectares. The Academy officially enrolled its first undergraduate class in 1997, with 197 Buddhist monks and nuns from 18 provinces and cities across the country participating in the enrollment. |
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| The Academy's auditorium is built in the shape of a lotus flower. |
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| During the past 20 years, the Academy has trained 9 courses with more than 1,000 monks and nuns graduating with a bachelor's degree in Buddhist studies and currently there are 480 monks and nuns studying at the school. |
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| The dormitory at the new Academy can only accommodate male monks, while female nuns must stay in a concentrated area 4km away from the academy. |
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| There are currently 100 monks residing here. Every day, the monks are only allowed to meditate from 10pm to 3am. From 3am, the monks will meditate, chant, study and practice according to strictly regulated time frames. |
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| The library of the Vietnam Buddhist Academy is equipped with many books on Buddhist scriptures and doctrines. The monks and nuns studying there have to study many documents written in Sanskrit (ancient India), ancient Chinese... Photo: vnexpress.net |
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| According to the training program, monks and nuns spend 4 years studying at the academy. The lecturers are mostly monks and nuns with degrees from the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha. In addition, the academy also invites professors and doctors from many places to give lectures. Photo: vnexpress.net |
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| Buddhist delegation of Nghe An asked monks at the Academy. |
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| Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper and representative of Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Nghe An presented gifts to Vietnam Buddhist Academy. |
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| Over the past 20 years, 30 Buddhist monks and nuns from the Academy have graduated with a PhD in Buddhist Studies; most of the Buddhist monks and nuns who graduated from the Academy are currently propagating the Dharma, taking charge of important Buddhist affairs at Central Committees and Institutes, in localities across the country and abroad. In the photo: The Nghe An Buddhist delegation took a souvenir photo with representatives of the Academy's Board of Directors. |
