Like other institutions of Hungarian higher education, The Gate of Dharma Buddhist College had previously adopted an Institutional Development Plan rather than a strategic program. The newly established practice introduces an innovation: the ‘Transformative Buddhist University’ strategy, which covers the period 2025–2035. In its first phase, the focus is on strengthening international competitiveness, while in its second phase the aim is to enhance the transformative role played in the international development of Buddhist higher education.
The mission of Dharma Gate Buddhist College is to provide modern and authentic education, conduct scholarly research on Buddhist teachings, and support and develop Buddhist communities. Our institution serves as a spiritual and community space where the living tradition of Buddhism engages in dialogue with the social and existential issues of the present age.
Based on its thirty-year history and training experience, state recognition and accreditation results, TKBF is an established, recognized institution in the European region, which provides quality higher education based on the EQAR register. The institution is an organization providing special religious education, which provides education in accordance with the Hungarian religious education and qualification system. TKBF’s training is unique in Europe, in comparison with American and Asian training, it offers a religious-cultural, language transmission program, and a unique practice-focused teacher training through its meditation content. In this respect, it is unique in Europe, since other related training programs teach exclusively orientalist (non-pastoral) Buddhist studies.
The TKBF’s training system and the development of Buddhist religious culture necessitate its transformation into a university, the introduction of a doctoral training program, and the third level, because its faculty supply cannot be provided either from Buddhist doctoral programs socialized in an outsider’s perspective, or from Asian doctoral programs, which also focus on orientalist programs outside of religious needs.
DGBC is an organization recognized by the Hungarian state, registered with MAB-EQAR, and is not subject to any other international accreditation. The state recognition has been updated through the continuous review of the qualification system. The institution plans to enter the higher education organization category of the church university based on the Ftv. TKBF is the only recognized institution in Europe that trains Buddhist theologians and Buddhist religious professions.
Its internal quality management system is suitable for external evaluation according to the ESG-based European and MAB integrated external evaluation system, related to the qualification recognition of the Office of Studies and DPR research.
The DGBC, together with the maintaining Church, determines the programs and sub-programs related to religious occupations that Buddhist communities need to develop.
The qualification map and needs are updated at least every three years, covering
the needs and needs for the administrative level (MMKR 5),
the graduate level (MKKR 6),
the postgraduate level (specialization, master’s degree, doctoral training).
The qualification needs and development needs are formalized by the appropriate body of the Church and the approval of the Senate.
A defining element of DGBC’s educational philosophy is that we convey the teachings of Buddhism, Buddhist self-development and personality development, and the skills of shaping the body and soul to Christian or Christian-based lay students in Europe.
The College is an autonomous institution that creates, evaluates and transmits the values of Buddhist culture and Dharma in scientific research and education.
The document serves the planning, implementation and evaluation of training services, the background of which is provided by the relevant institutional regulations. The aim of the document is to improve the quality of operational processes in institutional operations, as well as the quality of student, faculty and staff experiences.
The human resource perspective of DGBC is based on the teachings of Buddhism, the requirements of the National higher education law and requirements of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee, and global Buddhist academic resource development practices. The teaching profiles are not rigid, they are agreed with the institution’s management.
The student counseling strategy encompasses the entire student life and community development, and extends to the procedures governing student life, as well as the system of counseling and mentoring.
DGBC is committed to social responsibility, community involvement, sustainable development, compassionate action, and social service organized along Buddhist values, as well as community participation.
The institutional goal of DGBC is to strengthen social trust by developing the information service system and providing basic data concerning the competent higher education institution, the caring institution, and the management:
The purpose of the Information Technology Security Policy is to regulate the security measures applicable to the IT systems operated by the College, to determine the security rules for the procurement and use of IT equipment, the operation, development and application, and the data management process, to define IT roles, and to prescribe the IT security tasks of each actor:
Digital transformation aims to transform institutions, in addition to making information digitally available, automating and streamlining processes. Digital transformation is a major shift in culture, workforce and technology that generates a new education and training organization model, transforming the entire institutional operation, strategic development directions and value propositions:
