Gandayong Temple

Gandayong Temple is located in the southwest of Mandalay Province (near Ubon Bridge, also known as Lover Bridge, the famous teak bridge in Mandalay, Myanmar). It is a temple school covering kindergarten to high school. It is a 30-minute drive from Confucius Classroom, students It comes from ordinary poor families around and near the temple. Next to the Gandayong Temple is the Gandayong Buddhist College (otherwise known as the thou  sands of monks), and the monks of the Buddhist Academy come here to learn Chinese. The temple is also responsible for teaching Burmese and Pali. The Gandayong Temple was established on May 30, 1998 (Burmese Literature Hall). The temple is mainly composed of monks (more than 1,000) and students (329). The age of the monks is from Xiao Shami, who is five or six years old, to Bhikkhu, who is fifty or sixty years old; the student age is from 5 years old child students to 16 years old high school Health. Monks mainly study Buddhist scriptures (mainly in Pali); students (kindergarten students, elementary school students, middle school students, high school students) mainly study Burmese, culture, geography, history, English, mathematics, science, and computers. At present, the temple has opened evening school (Burmese high school). Since November 13, 2015, the Chinese language teaching center has started. There are currently two Chinese classes: the monk class and the Burmese middle school class. There are 21 students. The Chinese class is elementary, the first and third grades of elementary school, and the third grade of junior high school. The Chinese textbooks are the "Chinese" series of textbooks compiled by Beijing Chinese Language Academy and published by Jinan University Press, "Chinese for Infants" and "Kindergarten Readers". Gandayong Temple Chinese Teaching Site is currently the temple teaching site with the highest level of Chinese teaching class among the temple teaching sites. Three monks in the monk class at the teaching site of Gandamong Temple passed the HSK level 5 and HSKK intermediate exams in 2019, and some monks passed the HSK level 2 and 3.