ABSTRACT
Before the introduction of Buddhism, Dai education was mainly conducted at home or in the process of manual labor, with random students, unstable places of education, and disorganized contents, and it was in a disorderly and inefficient state. After the introduction of Buddhism, the Buddhist temples held the right to educate in the Old Dai language, thus making monastic education the most important educational form for the Dai people before the intervention of school education. It not only has the commonality of general religious education in spreading religious beliefs, but also bears the task of transmitting Dai culture and training qualified members of Dai society, which is reflected in the places, teachers, contents, school system, teaching methods, management system, and functions of monastic education.
