Campus Facilities

Central or Main Building of the University stands majestically at the main campus compound, with an attractive garden in front. It could be said as the heat of the institution since all formal administrative work takes place under its roofs. Stretched along from east to west facing north in the campus compound, the Edifice roofs offices for the Rector, Pro-Rectors, Director, Register, Staff Affairs, Accounting, Reception and so non. University Library, Meditation Hall and Seminar Hall are also situated in it. Magnum opus of translating Pāli-Myanmar Dictionary into English, too, takes place under its shelter.

ITBMU provides free accommodation for its students and monk teachers. All foreign students who join the University are provided with a well-furnished private room in Dormitories. There are five Dormitories for foreign students and since recently, University authorities arranged Hostels, in building at the scared Tooth Relic Pagoda compound, for local monk students. In each of the main four Hostels for foreign students, there is a shrine room, where students are often seen performing Buddhist rituals and meditating. Sayadaws (monk teachers), too, reside in a separate Hostel compound beside the main building, where as Most Venerable senior Sayadaws dwell in apartments about the Sīmā Hall. All these Dormitories have free Wi-Fi facilities. Presently, a new building is under construction as residence for Sayadaws (teachers). Apart from above mentioned buildings, there is a Dining Hall, a Kitchen for the use of students and a Medical Clinic, at student Hostel Compound. Moreover, in the collage compound there is a single store building as the residence for distinguished guests. A Clinic for Students and Staff Members of International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University.

ITBMU has an Sīmā Hall, entitled Theravāda Pasāranī, located in the collage compound, where its monks have the opportunity to carry on formal disciplinary acts annually. During each rainy season, monks, teachers and students, participate in the formal act of reciting Pātimokkha, principle disciplinary rules for Buddhist monks, once a fortnight. Vinaya acts of Pavārana and spreading the Kathina robe; too, are performed there, every year. There have been several monk students, who had received the higher ordination, at this chapter house under the preceptor-ship of distinguished Sayadaws.

As it was mentioned before, ITBMU was found on a compound near the sacred Tooth Relic Pagoda. The Pagoda is well known in Myanmar Language as ‘Shwedo Phaya’. It was constructed in 1996, two years before the inauguration of the University. In common to most of the temples in Myanmar (not the Pagodas), Shwedo Phaya, too, has a hallow chamber where the replica of the Buddha’s Tooth Relic, in China, is enshrined, inside a glass casket. Rising 162 feet high, the Pagoda stands in a majestic but serene appearance.

Students of ITBMU, on this account, are greatly blessed as they could, daily apprehend and visit the sublime monument. The Pagoda is even visible to the hostel premises, and, to visit it, one just needs to cross the road, running in front of the University. Peaceful serene feel of the surrounding environment of the monument appeals people’s desire to tranquility. Therefore, students of the University are often seen visiting the Pagoda in order to pay homage to the Replica of the Tooth Relic and to enjoy the calmness of the premises.

Central (Main) Building

Dormitories (Hostels)

Sima

Sacred Tooth Relic Pagoda

Meditation Hall