International Association of Buddhist Universities
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The International Association of Buddhist Universities, IABU, is an international forum for institutes of Buddhist higher education to network, understand, and benefit from the richness and variety of the multinational Buddhist tradition. There are already excellent international organisations which bring Buddhist scholars together; but those organisations, for example, the IABS and the AAS, bring together Buddhist scholars only at the individual level. The IABU is the first global forum that brings entire institutions together. As such, it provides new challenges as well as opportunities to those involved.
The IABU was formed quite recently, on May 28th, 2007/2550, upon the culmination of the first ever symposium of Buddhist Universities held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. The symposium was a part of the celebrations at the United Nations Day of Vesak, organised by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (www.mcu.ac.th) and sponsored by the Royal Government of Thailand.
