Buddhist University of Vietnam

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After the bell signals the lecture time, Buddhist students at the Vietnam Buddhism Institute in Soc Son district, Hanoi, hurriedly go to the lecture hall with books and laptops. At the Buddhist institute, students who are also Buddhist monks not only study but also have a merry life.

The path to the Vietnam Buddhism Institute in Phu Linh commune, Soc Son district. The institute has an 11 hectare campus, with nearly 300 students. There are 217 students who attend the four-year course and 79 with 3-year course.

All students stay in the institute’s dormitory and they study in the morning and the afternoon.

After the bell signals the lecture time, students leave their rooms on the mountain to the lecture hall.

To study at this institute, students must be at least 20 years old, have high-school diploma, and be recommended by local Buddhist Shanghas.

Annual school fee is VND1.5 million ($70). All students are subsidized with food and accommodations. They study about Buddhism and similar subjects of normal universities.


Students have to study ten months a year. They have one-month summer holiday. They are not allowed to return home during the course, except for the first and the fifteen day of lunar months or when their parents are sick.

After lecture time, students gather at Non Nuoc pagoda in the institute’s campus to practice meditation and other subjects of Buddhism.

Senior monk Dao Man from the institute’s training board said that students are very cheerful and close with each others.

“It is thought that people become monks because they are tired of the world or they do wrong things but it is not true. Many students here become Buddhist monks because they like it. There are many reasons that urge them to become monks,” Dao Man said.

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About the Vietnam Buddhist Studies Institute inHanoi:

The Vietnam Buddhist Studies Institute in Hanoi is the first institute in the Buddhist education and training system of the Vietnam Buddhist Shangha. It is the largest Buddhist talent-training centre in the country. In the future, it will provide MA and PhD degree courses.

Over the past 25 years, at Quan Su Pagoda (the first establishment of the Institute), the Vietnam Buddhist Studies Institute has organized four training courses and over 600 students have graduated. In 2006, with the assistance of the State and a large number of Buddhist followers at home and abroad, the Institute opened the 5th training course (2006-2010) at its new establishment covering an area of 10ha in Phu Linh Commune, Soc Son District in Hanoi . The training course enrolled over 300 students from 34 cities and provinces nationwide.
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