Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University[a] is a non-profit public higher-education institution located in the metropolis of Phnom Penh in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
The latter had suggested to the King that Buddhist education being reorganized after the country regained national independence on 9 November 1953.
During the terror regime of the Khmers Rouges between 1975 and 1979, the university suffered severe damage and most of its faculty was killed.
In 2007, a teacher in political philosophy at the university called Tieng Narith was sentenced to prison for publishing and teaching from his own anti-government textbook.
[9] In 2008, the university only had 10 academic staff while three times as many teachers were recruited from other institutions to serve as replacement, affecting the quality and the stability of the teaching.