TY - JOUR AU - Kai Ying, Kevin Chin PY - 2019/10/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Empowering Youth through Buddhist Education JF - The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU) JA - JIABU VL - 11 IS - 3 SE - Article DO - UR - https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/219835 SP - 372-377 AB - <p>With proper education imparted to youth, they can become productive, science-oriented, broad-minded and ideal citizens of society. The question is how can we as a<br>society add value to youths who are chasing their dreams? The challenge is to tailor a<br>course for them. This is not simply done as all people are unique. Religion can and should<br>play a big part in all this, and Buddhism, in particular, can have a big impact on youth. In<br>fact, there are four things from the Buddhist teachings that can help us to empower youth.<br>To keep these in mind we have an acronym; PASS. P stands for purity, A stands amending,<br>S stands for strength and the last S stands for sharing. Finally, we need to ensure that<br>Buddhism is not just a thing we find in temples and not just a ritual. It must be brought to<br>others in orphanages, senior citizen's homes, schools and in many places. Education has a<br>huge role to play in all this.</p> ER -