The Open Buddhist University is an unaccredited, digital resource run by Khemarato Bhikkhu since 2020. Its mission is to provide a free, English-language curriculum in Buddhist Studies from the perspective of Early Buddhism¹ to everyone. We hope that you’ll find these resources helpful and we welcome your feedback and questions at the email below (at the bottom of every page).

See our sources page for a list of the sources we used to put together the collections.

You can find a video introduction to the website on YouTube here, and can connect with other students of Early Buddhism over at the SuttaCentral: Discuss and Discover forum.

Thanks to our contributors for their help building the site.

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You can cite the website as:
Khemarato, 2024. “The Open Buddhist University”. December 20. https://buddhistuniversity.net doi:10.5281/zenodo.4448510

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Footnotes:

1. For more information about OBU’s curatorial philosophy, see our collection development policy. ↩