Kathmandu University – Centre for Buddhist Studies offers academic programs leading to BA and MA degrees in Buddhist Studies and provides research facilities  for international scholars of Buddhism. The Centre is located at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, just a few minutes’ walk  from the Great Stupa of Boudhanath in the midst of several thriving Buddhist cultures and traditions.

Rangjung Yeshe Institute has conducted seminars and study programs in Nepal  for more than twenty years. Today it is among the leading educational institutions  in Asia to offer a full range of intensive language courses in Tibetan, Sanskrit and  Nepali. A hallmark of the Rangjung Yeshe Institute has been its ability to combine  traditional Buddhist monastic learning with crucial aspects of modern academic  scholarship in the area of Buddhist philosophy. The faculty at the Centre for  Buddhist Studies is comprised of scholars from both of these traditions, thus  constituting a unique environment of both learning and hands-on expertise.