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Himalayan Buddhist Cultural School was founded in the year 1996. It is an English medium Co-educational Independent school affiliated to CBSE with affiliation number 2430208, with classes Nursery/KG/LKG, I to XII, and has a General affiliation which is valid up to 31/3/2020. It lies in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal and is currently being managed by the Salugara Himalayan Bhuddhist Cultural Association, West Bengal. It is presently under the principal -administration of Saru Rai, with a total of 19 staff members. There are a total of 23 rooms, 3 Labs, and 1 Library present in the school. The nearest railway station is New Jalpaiguri and it is 9 KM far from the school. You can find other information about the school in the tables below. NATURE OF THE SCHOOL Category of School Co-educational Medium of Instruction English Types of School Independent LOCATION OF SCHOOL Nearest Railway Station New Jalpaiguri Distance in KM 9 Nearest Police Station New JalpaiguriBhaktinagar Distance in KM 8 Nearest Nationalised Bank Vijaya Bank Distance in KM 1 ENROLLMENT OF THE STUDENTS Class No. of Section No. of Student Nursery/KG/LKG 3 42 I 1 18 IV 1 17 VI 1 20 VIII 1 7 IX 0 0 X 0 0 XI 0 0 XII 0 0 III 1 23 V 1 24 VII 1 14 II 1 20 Labs and Rooms Details Total Rooms Total Lab Total Libraries Small Room Medium Room Large Room School Area (in Sq m.) Play Area (in Sq m.) 23 3 1 3 14 2 8175 6000 Labs and Rooms Details Room Number Size Length (in Ft.) Breadth (in Ft.) Other Rooms 4 25 20 Bio-Tech Lab 0 0 0 Maths Lab 1 25 20 Computer Science Lab 1 25 20 Home Science Lab 0 0 0 Library 1 40 20 Biology Lab 0 0 0 Composite Science Lab 1 40 20 Physics Lab 0 0 0 Chemistry Lab 0 0 0 Class Room 12 25 20 PARTICULARS OF TEACHING STAFF Staff Number Trained Untrained PRTs 8 8 0 TGTs 6 6 0 Librarian 1 1 0 PTI 1 1 0 PGTs 0 0 0 *Vice Principal/Supervisor/Head Master/ Head Mistres 0 0 0 NTTs 3 3 0 Physical Size Area of Campus (in sq. Mtrs.) 9388.706848 (in Acres.) 2.32 Built up Area in (in sq. Mtrs.) 1855 Whether the School at one site or two site NO Area of Playground (in sq. Mtrs.) 4000 SANITARY CONDITIONS Type of W.C and Urinals flush No. of Urinals/Lavatories Separately for Boys 14 No. of Urinals/Lavatories Separately for Girls 14 Potable Water yes Has Certificate about health and sanitary conditions, drinking water and fire safety of the school has been obtained from the competent authorities of the area? yes LIBRARY FACILITIES Total No of Books 1863 Periodicals 5 Dailies 4 Reference Books 106 Magazine 5 SPORTS & GAMES Swimming Pool No Indoor Games Yes Dance Rooms No Gymnasium No Music Rooms No Hostel No Health and Medical Check up Yes View full school

The International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies was founded in 1996 by Professor Akira Hirakawa as an institution dedicated to furthering research into Buddhism and educating new Buddhist scholars. Currently, the college has two affiliated institutes, i.e., the International Institute for Buddhist Studies and the Research Institute for Old Japanese Manuscripts of Buddhist Scriptures. A library whose collection amounts to more than 140,000 volumes of Buddhist studies and related areas. These facilities make possible fulfilling our duty of conducting Buddhist research and educating capable specialists in the field. It is well known that Buddhism was born 2,500 years ago in India and spread first across Asia, and now all over the world, surmounting national, ethnic, and cultural barriers. This makes a global perspective a fundamental desideratum in Buddhist studies. Our curriculum, designed to foster such a perspective, covers four cultural areas: South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, East Asia, and Pan-Asian culture. The International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies offers a five-year program leading to a Ph.D. degree. We accept four students per year. The quota of the entire college is thus 20 students. This number allows us to conduct small-group instruction in which we can answer the needs of each student. The students also benefit from study support programs offered by our Library and International Institute for Buddhist Studies staff. The college has its scholarship system, and students from abroad can apply for the dormitory facilities situated on the campus. Located in a quiet neighborhood in Bunkyō-Ku, Tokyo, the land which is now the college campus was the former residential site of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun, after relinquishing the power to the Meiji government. Surrounded by large trees and green lawns, the library, classrooms, and research spaces offer a perfect oasis to pursue the study of Buddhism in a calm, sunny environment. Research into Buddhism focuses on two main aspects, i.e., textual studies and philosophical studies based on primary sources. The college boasts an impressive collection of books and materials, including almost all available editions of the Buddhist Canon and digital archives of old Japanese manuscripts of Buddhist texts dating back to the Nara and Heian periods. This greatly facilitates the research in both textual studies and philosophical studies. We hope that the students will better understand the universal truths through the study of Buddhism and succeed in tackling such contemporary issues as bioethics and environmental problems. Paradoxically, this has made us forget to search for humanity's fundamental question: 'How should human beings live their lives?'. Bioethics and environmental issues illustrate this impasse of humankind. To answer the problems confronting our age, our students are allowed to deepen their knowledge of other religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, etc. We thus endeavor to educate specialists who will also be able to deal with religious problems in the international arena. We welcome all those interested in this field to join us on the path of Buddhist studies and open the gate to the vast Dharma treasure of eighty-four thousand teachings. View full university

Pal Buddhist School has a strict anti-bullying policy. Our zero-tolerance approach to any forms of verbal, physical, psychological, and emotional abuse and all forms of gender, religious, sexual, or racial discrimination is emphasized by our commitment to developing respectful, disciplined, and honest young people. All school community members contribute to preventing bullying by modeling and promoting appropriate behavior and respectful relationships. At Pal Buddhist School, all students, teachers, and parents are connected by an innovative cloud-based data management system called SENTRAL. Students can access their timetable, homework & assessment tasks, attendance, and school resources via a centralized online platform. Because it is cloud-based, they can view, submit, or retrieve class work using any connected device such as tablets, mobile phones, and laptops. Teachers can provide almost instantaneous feedback and easily share online resources hosted by Sentral. Likewise, parents can also view online their child's progress and interact with teachers as quickly as students can. Pal Buddhist School is the first school in the region to implement innovative technology in our learning and teaching platforms. Do not go by tradition, nor by lineage, nor by hearsay, nor by scripture, nor by skepticism, nor by philosophy, nor by pedantry, nor by dogmatism, nor by charisma, nor by thinking, "the recluse in our guru," but when you know for yourselves: "This idea is wholesome; this idea is praiseworthy, this idea is praised by the wise, this idea when takes up and acts upon leads to happiness and welfare," Then you should take it up and live it out. Our school is open to all people interested in the good life. Although our basis is early Buddhism, we are confident that our education approach is congenial to good people of all creeds. Buddhists of all traditions will feel a connection here as early Buddhism is the seedbed of all Buddhism types. Non-Buddhists will also be able to use the clear-headed rationalism of early Buddhism to clarify their own beliefs. By discovering Buddhism, all students are taught to become wise, disciplined, and compassionate learners. Our school takes an approach to education that integrates the universal qualities of faith and wisdom, one that remembers and builds upon enlightened civilization through independent investigation, empiricism, and reason. As such, we are not a religious school in the sense that we hold to any ideas based on pure faith and mere dogma, or in the sense that we use faith as a trump-card to reason. Instead, we are a School of Science in its most real sense: we aim to foster in our students a love of the pursuit of truth in all domains, the material and the spiritual, the discovered, as well as the undiscovered. We hold that truth becomes dead tradition and dogma unless we always strive to use the tools of empiricism and reason to discover and rediscover truth for ourselves directly. The capacity for independent thinking, empiricism, and reason does not come from anything. It is sown, cultivated, and stabilized in the soil of all-round character development. As a Buddhist School, we use Buddha'sBuddha's teaching as a rich resource in this regard. The Buddha taught both secular and spiritual knowledge. However, to guard against the institutionalization of blind belief, our approach is to keep a strict line between classes about secular knowledge (i.e., the knowledge that can be verified through ordinary experiences) such as maths, science, English, and meditation (as a form of body-mind exercise), and spiritual knowledge (i.e., the knowledge that cannot be verified by ordinary experiences) such as how to see the operation of karma over many lifetimes across the many realms of rebirth. Our policy is to teach secular knowledge during school hours and offer spiritual teachings to our students outside school hours on a strictly voluntary basis. Siddhartha" was Buddha'sBuddha's birth-name. It means "One who achieves his own goals." The Buddha was an advocate of ambitious goal-setting, constant striving, and discipline for the sake of attaining one'sone's own goals. Thus, while accepting each individual's different potentials, we raise our students the desire to be the very best person they can be. We celebrate high achievement in both academics and sport and hold to strict disciplinary standards. We are also a School that encourages friendly competition. While ultimately, where we stand about others matters little – for how we stand about ourselves is what counts – it is good to engage in a friendly competition to bring out our best. View full school