Education in Tibetan Buddhism: modern trends

The article deals with the main trends of confessional education development in Tibetan Buddhism, which have arisen as a response to the global spread of postmodern ideology in the modern world. At present, the development of Buddhist education is taking place in a new cultural setting, dominated mainly by Western educational standards. This leads to the need to adapt traditional standards not only to education systems aimed at Western followers of Buddhism, but also to those that are targeted at students who traditionally practice Buddhism in the countries affected by the processes of globalization. Adaptation takes place in different forms: 1) new disciplines are supplemented with traditional subject content while preserving the forms and methods of traditional education; 2) a set of traditional disciplines is taught in forms approximating the standards of secular university education; 3) the philosophical and doctrinal content of Buddhism is taught as a secular specialization. These tendencies are still at the periphery of the confessional educational process, but given the increasing spread of Buddhism in the West, as well as the increasing Westernization of the countries within the traditional area of its existence, we can expect the development of this ambiguous process in the future.