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Most senior western Vipassana teachers (Goldstein, Kornfield, Salzberg) studied with Mahasi Sayadaw and his student Sayadaw U Pandita. [34] Nyanaponika Thera (1901–1994) ordained already in the fifties, contributing to the interest in Vipassana with his publications. Prominent teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi is a student of Nyanaponika.
Jagadguru Ramanadacharya Rajasthan Sanskriti University formerly known as Rajasthan Sanskrit University, is a public state university situated in Madau (Bhankrota) Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. It was established by Government of Rajasthan to promote Sanskrit education.
The Founder, Lekhraj Kriplani. The Brahma Kumaris organisation was founded in Hyderabad, Sindh, in northwest India (present-day Pakistan). [5] They were initially known as Om Mandali, as the members would together chant Om before engaging in a spiritual discourse in traditional satsangs (meetings).
It is an underground library set up 16 feet (4.9 m) under ground beneath a temple. [3] This helps keeping library cool even in the humid summer. The bibliotheca consists of 562 glass shelves. the library is being looked after by the villagers and the temple devotees through a trust named Jagdamba Seva Committee.
The Visuddhimagga is one of the main texts on which contemporary vipassana method (and the vipassana movement itself) is based, together with the Satipatthana Sutta. Yet, its emphasis on kasina -meditation and its claim of the possibility of "dry insight" has also been criticised and rejected by some contemporary Theravada scholars and ...
As of July 2017, there are seven deemed universities in Rajasthan. [3] Banasthali Vidyapith, Vanasthali; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani; IIS University, Jaipur; Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Sardarshahar; Jain Vishva Bharati University, Ladnu; Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur
Acharavadee Wongsakon is a Thai lay Buddhist teacher and former entrepreneur who teaches a form of Vipassana meditation called Techo Vipassana Meditation. She is the founder of the Knowing Buddha Organization, which campaigns against disrespectful uses of Buddha imagery and the general decline of morality in society.
[1] [2] [3] Those stages are increasingly subtle and lead to control of mind, producing samadhi in order to achieve vipassana. [ 4 ] In Zen buddhism , the art of breath counting is named sūsoku-kan (数息観, "number breath viewing"), although the word is used to refer to anapanasati in a general way.