A Seminar with the theme “Buddhist education science in Vietnam: Tradition and Modernity” took place on November 6 in the Vietnam Buddhist Institute in Hanoi’s Soc Son district.
The seminar was co-organized by the Vietnam Buddhist Studies Institute and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s Committee for Clergy Education on occasion of the VBS’s 35th founding anniversary.
Attending the event included Most Venerable Chairman of the VBS’s Executive Council Thích Thiện Nhơn, monks and nuns from the VBS’s Committee for Clergy Education, representatives of the VBS’s Executive Committee in provinces and cities, and 32 Buddhist schools across the country, as well as monks and nuns studying in the Vietnam Buddhist Institute.
The seminar also saw the participation of Dr. Bùi Hữu Dược, Director of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs’ Department of Buddhist Affairs, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyễn Kim Sơn, Director of the Vietnam National University, and a large number of researchers and scholars.
During the seminar, 50 presentations and articles of participating scholars and researchers focused on the inherent and developmental process of education system at Buddhist monasteries, reforms in Buddhist education to adapt with social development trend by the VBS’s Committee for Clergy Education, as well as development of a unifying training model with strengthening of coordination between Buddhist schools and expanding international connections (particularly master and doctor grades), and building a specific training model for ethnic minorities (such as Khmer Theravada Buddhism) to preserve fine traditions and enhance integration process.
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