Bodhi College was stopped because the people in the education department found that it was not enough to set up a college through evaluation, so it could not be approved.
Bodhi Academy, the full name of which is Suzhou Xiyuan Bodhi Academy, is a Buddhist society approved and registered by the competent government department. It is a spiritual college that guides the public to learn Buddhism and awaken to life. It is a spiritual home that carries out life care and spiritual charity. It is a non-governmental organization that carries out Buddhist cultural exchanges at home and abroad and promotes Chinese traditional culture. Bodhi Academy was founded by Master Ji Qun, the director of Jiezhuang Buddhist Research Institute, as a tutor, and the president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Chuanyin, as an honorary dean of religion.
The establishment of Bodhi Academy aims to guide the broad masses of believers to go deep into Buddhism and benefit from it. The original origin is called "Four One Projects", that is, a learning organization, a learning mode, a group of counselors and a foundation. These four ones are all centered on learning and spreading Buddhism. Among them, relying on the study organization, taking the study mode as the way, taking the counselor as the bridge and taking the foundation as the backing.