PSB University
His Holiness Samdech Preah Abhisiri Sugandha mahasangharajah Dhipati Kitti Udessa Pandita Bour Kry, the great supreme Patriarch of Dhammyutta of Kingdom of Cambodia, was the founder of Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry Buddhist High School located within the Svay Pope Monastery in Phnom-Penh. Students who had completed their secondary studies needed to pursue their academic course to a higher level. Nevertheless, Universities in Cambodia were not adapted to meet the needs of very poor students like the novice monks of the Dhammyutta Order. The need to create a new institution in order to fill this crucial lack was felt strongly.
Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University (PSB University), Cambodia was officially promulgated in July 24, 2007 within sub-degree number 86 and recognized by Accreditation Committee of Cambodia. Named by Preah Bat Norodom Sihamoni, the King of Cambodia and directed by Samdech Preah Moha Sanghareach Bour Kry, current Supreme Patriarch of the Dhammyutta order of Cambodia, PSB University produced 954 graduates in 2020 and currently exists,
1675 students both Bachelor and Master degree in 4 faculties such as Philosophy, Religion and Law, Educational Sciences and Literature, Pali Sangkrit and Foreign Language, Information Technology – Computer Science.
The Buddhist University was established under the high sponsorship of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech PREAH BOROMNEATH NORODOM SIHAMONI of Cambodia and proudly carries His Augustus name. It also receives the active support of the Ministry of Cult and Religions, and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, as well as the administration staff, civil servants, and civilians. It is set up under the supervision of the Ministry of Cult and Religions and has its headquarters in the Svay Pope Monastery, Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamcar Mon, Phnom-Penh.
The classes are conducted by national professors with a capacity in the teacher training at the Doctorate and Master degrees. The University intends to set up some partnerships with friendly countries, especially Buddhist countries, in order to attract the best foreign professors. These professors shall be able to teach higher level classes in order to provide students a perfect and full knowledge in different fields for a better understanding of our century.
The founder of the Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University would wish to give a vision and spirit based on the Buddha’s teachings in order to set up a culture of peace, and a humanist, tolerant and harmonious mind in the present society. The enforcement of the Blessed One’s teachings through higher education will facilitate understanding, solidarity and compassion between men and women in the same society. It will also spread more tolerant and friendly relations among all peoples.
The first aim of the Buddhist University is to allow the elaboration of a new tank of the best human resources, well-educated as well as in general training and the technical capacities than in the knowledge of the Buddhist principles and values. Its principle will also be the preservation of Buddhism, and Khmer cultures and traditions, providing necessary intellectual foundations for development of the modern Khmer society.
Being aware of the huge needs of the country, the Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University takes part strongly in the noble mission of the reconstruction and intellectual rebirth in the near future which the country needs. It has the will and capability to participate in this reconstruction, and it is able to train and to provide human resources, educated in the sufficient knowledge as well as in the fields of the Buddhist spiritual sciences than in the fields of the most modern technologies.
Rector PSB University
It will be a good asset to allow our younger generations to acquire adequate capabilities to face new challenges, and the complexity of the actual world and to understand the role of their country in this world. The younger generations will have the intellectual, spiritual and technical means in order to assure the continuity and the radiance of our culture, our civilization, and also the development of the economic potentials of the country to fight poverty.
Rector
Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University
H.H. Samdech Preah Abhisiri Sugandha
Mahasangharajah Dhipati BOUR KRY
Samdech Preah Mahasangharajah of
Dhammayuttikanikaya of
The Kingdom of Cambodia