Educating leaders through Wisdom and Compassion.
Our mission is to encourage, equip, and enable students to fulfill their great potential, and in turn to become encouragers, equippers, and enablers of others.
About the University
About World Bulgyo University
WBU provides higher learning and continuing education for Buddhist monks, leaders, laypeople, missionaries, counselors, and global Buddhist educators.
Institutional Identity
A serious academic institution with Buddhist wisdom at its center.
The aim of World Bulgyo University is to provide higher learning and continuing education for Buddhist monks, leaders, laypeople, missionaries, counselors, and global Buddhist educators.
Buddhist ministry today is being carried on in the midst of tremendous change. WBU helps students build Buddhist foundations while developing professional competence in counseling, spiritual therapy, intercultural communication, temple leadership, and administration.
A global community guided by Buddhist insight.
WBU is dedicated to staying at the forefront of change so that each student's degree remains current, applicable, and rooted in service for a dynamic world.
Core Values
Wisdom, Compassion, Leadership
The university's values are designed for study, practice, and service beyond the classroom.
Wisdom
Careful study of Buddhist thought, literature, ethics, meditation, and contemporary application.
Compassion
Training the heart and mind to serve families, temples, communities, and global society.
Leadership
Preparing students for temple leadership, mission, education, counseling, and cultural service.
Professional and personal growth of each student.
WBU provides current and comprehensive information in temple and management studies, taught by academically and professionally qualified faculty in a learning environment conducive to intellectual, professional, and personal maturity.
Responsible decisions and professional ideals.
The university broadens each student's framework for reasoned decisions, provides support services for completing graduation requirements, and stresses ethical behavior and responsibility toward the standards of their chosen profession.
A bridge between Buddhist heritage and American higher education.
WBU honors the wisdom of Asian Buddhist traditions while presenting education in a format accessible to students in Los Angeles and around the world.
Human wisdom for technological transformation.
In the AI era, WBU emphasizes ethical reflection, compassion, cultural identity, and spiritual depth so that technology serves human flourishing.
Disclosure Statement
Transparency and institutional responsibility
Credits earned at World Bulgyo University are subject to the acceptance of the receiving institution. WBU presents its mission, programs, policies, admissions information, and student services clearly so prospective students and the public can make informed decisions.