Buddhist temple education and national compulsory education coexisting in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna is a specific phenomenon in China’s educational context. The balance between these two distinct education forms is conducive to the further development of ethnic minority education in this region, so determining how to balance these two forms of education has attracted researchers’ interests. In this study, we analyzed the data collected from interviews with 29 participants based on their views and experiences of these two education forms. The results highlight the collision between these two education forms; the possible reasons for this collision are discussed in this paper. We propose that the co-flourishing of these two forms of education could reasonably promote the sustainable development of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna.
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