Vishwa Shanti Bauddha Shikshalaya, the World Peace Buddhist School:

Vishwa Shanti Bauddha Shikshalaya (World Peace Buddhist School) was
founded within the precincts of Vishwa Shanti Vihara (World Peace Temple) as
an educational wing of the Vihara, with the noble intention of producing capable
and learned Buddhist scholars (monks, novices and nuns) who will act as the
nuclei to spread the Buddha’s message of love, unity and peace in Nepal and
throughout the world.
The school was established on March 1, 1997, through the ardent effort of its
founder and organizer, Late Ven. Bhikshu Jnanapurnika Mahathero, with 5
students in class 5 and 10 students in class 6, in affiliation with the well-known
Bhanu Madhyamik Vidyalaya, (Durbar High School), Kathmandu.
In 2011, the Government of Nepal granted permission to Vishwa Shanti
Bauddha Shikshalaya to became an independent school. Since then, we have
been conducting classes for grades 6 to 10. At present, there are around 50
students studying in the school. Students are strictly selected on the basis of
entrance tests and interviews.
Seventeen teachers, including monks, who studied at this very school are
working on a full or part-time basis to run the school. Thanks to the disciplined
way of Buddhist living, the school has been able to make remarkable progress
within few years as can be seen from their academic achievements.

Late Ven. Bhikshu Jnanapurnika Mahathero, the founder, used to conduct
regular meditation discourses on Buddhism, especially on Abhidhamma. Since
his passing away that responsibility is being carried out by Bhante Bodhijnana.
The school runs meditation courses for the students twice a day as well as
discourses and meditation hours for interested people once a week. Special
meditation session/retreats are held for the school residents and others for a
longer period during vacations or long holiday periods.

The Major activities carried out in the School:
a) Imparting to monks, novices and nuns who reside in the Vihara, a high school
education upto grade X.
b) Imparting Buddhist Pariyatti education to the monks, novices and nuns
leading to Saddhamma Palaka/ Kovida stage.
c) Conducting research studies and communicating Buddhist wisdom through
discourses, bulletins and journals.
d) Conducting regular Buddhist meditation programs for the students and other
residents of the Vihara, and any other interested persons.
e) Carrying on extracurricular activities (Quiz contest, Debate, Oratory Contest,
Essay Contest, Picture Drawing Contest, Study Tour, Ordination Programs, etc.)
on regular basis to raise the status of physical as well as mental well-being of the
students.

A Non-profit Organization:
The Vihara with its school is essentially a non-profit organization where the
students get their education as well as boarding and lodging free of charge, and the teachers are also paid a minimum rate for their services. As a result, education is very expensive. However, due to the generous acts of our devotees, be it sponsering novice/s for a year, providing stationaries or offering lunch we are
managing to pull it through.
An appeal to well wishers of the Vihara and the school !
The Vihara, being a non profit organization that seeks to protect and preserve
Buddhism, depends heavily on the generosity of the donors/devotees for the
major part of the expenses to provide excellent education and services to the
students and other resident monastics. Inevitably, the Vihara needs financial
support in terms of personnel, books, donations and sponsor for its smooth
operation. Therefore, any generous donation will be welcomed with gratitude
and thanks. And the Vihara sincerely wishes its well-wishers from abroad and
from within the country a blessed, happy and prosperous life.

How can you help?
The Vihara heartily appeals to the Buddhist world to provide dhamma
donations to the Vihara and help keep it alive in order to fulfill its noble goals.
This can be done in one or several of the following ways.
i. Offering scholarships to the students to help keep up their studies,
ii. Offering stationeries, books, furniture, etc.,
iii. Providing medical equipment and other materials,
iv. Providing scholarships to some of the Vihara students to help them undertake
higher studies in Buddhism in other countries.