Tibetan School Says Prayers in New Prayer Hall

Bylakuppe: After inaugurating two newly built prayer halls of the Tibetan Secondary School at Sera Jey Monastery, Kalon Tripa Prof Samdong Rinpoche said "the school must include courses on Buddhist treatises in its curriculum".

“In addition to courses on social studies and science, there must be facilities for the students to study key texts of Buddhist studies,” Kalon Tripa told a gathering of over 700 consisting mainly of monastic officials, faculty members and students.

“In Tibet, children in your same age group do not get the opportunity for proper education. Even if some of the children do have access to education, they are taught only modern subjects through Chinese language as the medium of instruction and denied any opportunity to study Buddhist philosophy,” Kalon Tripa told students at the function. “Therefore, the students studying here should not squander their opportunity. Moreover, the study Buddhist philosophy through listening, thinking and meditating could not be put into practice without a thorough learning of its practical and theoretical aspects,” he added.