 Nearly 600 Buddhist primary schools, with an enrollment of more than 10,000 novices and with 800 monks as instructors, existed in 1962.The Preach Samaritan Buddhist Lyceum—a four-year institution in Phantom Pena founded in 1955—included courses in Tali, in Sanskrit, and in Khmer, as well as in many modern disciplines.In 1962 the student body numbered 680.