Europe’s only primary school to teach through Buddhist principles

Brighton, UK -- If you'd asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was a little boy at primary school I would have replied: "a teacher". I went to Patcham Junior school in the 1990s and I think that was a bit of a golden age for teaching.  More


Archaeologists' discovery puts Buddha's birth 300 years earlier
by Elizabeth Day, The Observer, 1 December 2013
British archaeologist Robin Coningham talks about a three-year expedition to Nepal, which could rewrite history

Lumbini, Nepal -- When Professor Robin Coningham's youngest son Gus was five, he was asked at school what his father did. "He works for the Buddha," said the boy. Which led to a bit of confusion, recalls Coningham.  More

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